Ben has $10 to spend on dinner. he can have a pizza delivered, drive to a burger place, or go to the grocery store to get ingredients for a fresh salad. in the end, he goes with the salad. if each meal would have cost him the same amount, what is ben’s incentive for choosing salad?

the salad is heather for him

the direct variation says that:

then the equation is of the form is given by:

            where k is the constant variation.

from the given table:

consider any value of x and m(x)=y

x = 2 and m(x)=y = 3

substitute these value in [1]; we have;

divide both sides by 2 we get;

⇒

check:

put x = -1 and m(x) = -1.5

substitute in the equation:

-1.5 = -1.5                   true

therefore, the function m(x) represents a direct variation

graph of this function as shown below:

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