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Direct and Indirect Variation

Author: Graham Pardun

What It Means When Y Varies Directly As X (or Inversely)

In this lesson, we'll go over what it means when "y varies directly as x" or "y varies inversely as x" (sometimes said "y varies indirectly as x"), and then we'll work through some real-life word problems involving these kinds of variation!