Stage 21 · Linear Functions

21.1.2 Two Quantities That Rise Together

21.1 From Coordinates to Direct Proportion: The Plainest Kind of Change

Point 2 of 5

21.1.2 Two Quantities That Rise Together

Core idea

Buy apples: double the pounds and you double the price, and this "locked-together doubling" is written y=kx.

Module goal. Building on the coordinate plane and the idea of a function, meet the simplest family of functions — direct-proportion functions — and lock in the core picture: a graph that's a straight line through the origin.
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