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What's the Inverse Variation or Indirect Proportionality Formula?

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Indirect variation, indirect proportionality, inverse proportionality, constant of variation, inverse of variation. What's all this mean? How are they related? What are these terms used for? A simple explanation: if one variable increases in value, the other variable decreases in value. Check out this video to see how that works.

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6th - 9th
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Math
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