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Could this set of ordered pairs have been generated by a linear function (-3,0),(-2,4),(-1,8),(0,12),(1,16),(2,20)

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Answer:yes because the input and the output don’t repeat

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yes

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Each increment of 1 in x produces an increment of 4 in y. When the increments have the same ratio like that (4:1), the function is linear. The equation for it is ...

y = 4x +12 . . . a linear function

Could this set of ordered pairs have been generated by a linear function (-3,0),(-2,4),(-1,8),(0,12),(1,16),(2,20)-example-1
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