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🔑 Key Concepts
- The constant of proportionality is the constant value that relates \( x \) and \( y \) in a proportional relationship.
- For many proportional relationships, you can find the constant using \( k = \frac{y}{x} \).
- If two ratios have the same value of \( \frac{y}{x} \), they represent the same proportional relationship.
- If the value of \( \frac{y}{x} \) changes, the relationship is not proportional.
- In an equation written as \( y = kx \), the number multiplied by \( x \) is the constant of proportionality.
✏️ Worked Examples
🧠 Math Vocabulary
- Proportional relationship: a relationship where two quantities have a constant ratio.
- Constant of proportionality: the constant value \( k \) that relates \( x \) and \( y \).
- \( k = \frac{y}{x} \): a common formula used to find the constant of proportionality.
- Equivalent ratios: ratios that have the same value.
- \( y = kx \): the equation form for a proportional relationship.
💡 Main Idea
The constant of proportionality helps describe how two quantities are connected. Once you find \( k \), you can use it to write an equation, find missing values, or check whether other ratios belong to the same proportional relationship.
📚 What You Should Already Know
Students should know how to divide, simplify ratios, identify \( x \)-values and \( y \)-values, and understand that equivalent ratios describe the same proportional relationship.
🚀 What Comes Next
After using the constant of proportionality to find missing values, students can write equations in the form \( y = kx \), analyze proportional graphs, compare tables, and solve real-world proportional relationship problems.
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