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5. Analyzing Lines of Fit
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Exercise 32 Page 198

Is the rate of change constant for the given (x,y) coordinate pairs?

Nonlinear, see solution.

Practice makes perfect

We are given a table of (x,y) coordinate pairs and want to know if the relation between them is a linear function. Let's pay close attention to the given table.

We can see that as x coordinates increase by 1, the y coordinates change by different amounts. The rate of change is not constant and so the function is nonlinear.