18 Variation

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completion of this chapter, the student should be able to:

  • Solve application problems involving ratios and proportions

  • Set up relationships between variables in terms of direct variation, inverse variation, or joint variation

  • Solve application problems involving the different types of variation

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