Question

Last summer milo sold water bottles at the park to raise money for his baseball team he made the table below does the table shows a proportional relationship how do you know

Answer 1

No

Explanation:

For a proportional relationship :

y = kx

Where , k = constant of proportionality

Taking the first set of data:

x = 50 ; y = 10

10 = 50k

k = 10/ 50 = 1/5

Hence, the proportional equation or relation is :

y = 1/5x

Check if this is true for other data points on the data :

Taking the second data point :

x = 85 ; check if y will be 20

From :

y = 1/5x

y = 1/5*85

y = 85/5

y = 17

Since ;

y value from the equation isn't the same as that in the table, then the table does not show a proportional relationship.