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Question 1014452: I don't understand this question...thank you to anyone who can help.
How would you describe the location of a graphed inverse variation based on the constant?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source):
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y varies inversely with x.
Let k be a variation constant;
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If you knew nothing else, you may choose several values for x, and compute corresponding values for y; and from this table of x and y values, plot points and draw the graph. You may still need some way of finding your value for k, but you expect k will be a constant. x must never be 0, so that the graph WILL have an asymptote of the y-axis. Also, as x goes unbound to the left or to the right, y will never actually become 0, so you will find that the x-axis is also an asymptote. The value of k will not affect the asymptotes.

Here is a graph if k=1.