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Equations from graphs

David Swinscoe shows how plotting a graph can help us to understand the mathematical relationship between two sets of variables

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Sometimes when we do an experiment or take measurements we do not know the mathematical relationship between the variables. Plotting a graph provides one way of showing this relationship.

If, when we plot a graph of the variables we have measured, we get a straight line, we know that the mathematical relationship is of the form:

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