Question

explain how it is possible that all proportional relationships are linear functions but not all linear functions are proportional relationships.

Answer 1

Proportional and linear functions are almost identical in form. The only difference is the addition of the “b” constant to the linear function. Indeed, a proportional relationship is just a linear relationship where b = 0, or to put it another way, where the line passes through the origin (0,0).

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