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Question 452990: Can someone help me. We just started this matter less than a week ago and I don't understand one bit of it. Textbooks are written in a foreign language to me.
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Find the variation constant in which y varies inversely as x, and the following condition exists.
y=14 when x= 1/7
k=
Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
yalpha 1/x
y=k*1/x
plug value of x & y
14=k*1/(1/7)
14= 7k
k=2