What Is Meant By Direct Proportion ?

Suppose you increase the number of books in your bag. What will happen to its weight? It will also increase.

This is direct proportionality.

Two quantities x and y are said to be in direct proportion if they increase or decrease together in such a manner that the ratio of their corresponding values remains constant. That is, if x/y=k [k is a positive number], then x and y are said to vary directly.

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Updated on: 10-Oct-2022

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