Natural numbers: Counting things! You look around your room and see an electronic device, then another, then another! You just counted to 3 using the natural numbers.
Whole numbers! You try to look for electronic devices and realise that they’re all gone. You have zero electronic devices, and you just used whole numbers.
You go online to find where your electronic devices went, and realise they were taken because you’re in debt to the bank so they took some of your stuff. You’re in negative numbers, and now you’ve used integers.
A number is a mathematical object used to count, measure, and label
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The equation for the direct variation is y= kx (where k is contant of variation.)
This equation represent that if x will increase then y will also increase because it's k times x.
Where the equation for indirect variation is 
By this equation if x will increase then y will decrease and vice versa.
The given data is :
x: 2 4 8 12
y: 4 2 1 2/3
Notice as x is increasing then y is decreasing. Like x has increased from 2 to 4 then y is decresing from 4 to 2 and so on.
So, the given data represent an indirect variation.