Paul Yates discusses a problem of relationships
Two variables are said to be proportional if the change in one can be predicted from a change in the other. There are two distinct types of proportional relationship relevant to secondary school chemists: direct and inverse proportion. Direct proportion is conceptually easier – for example, if we double the volume of a solid, we also double its mass.
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