Graphing Relationships

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Graphing Relationships
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Graphing Relationships are

• 1. descriptions of how two variables relate to
  each other on a graph.
• 2. usually structured As _________ increases,
  __________ (increases/decreases.)
• 3. fall into 4 categories
• a) Direct Relationship
• b) Indirect Relationship
• c) Cyclic Relationship
• d) Dynamic Equilibrium

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Direct Relationship

• A direct relationship is when one variable
  increases, so does the other.
• They look like this

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Indirect (or Inverse) Relationship

• An indirect relationship is when one variable
  increases, the other decreases.
• They look like this

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Cyclic Relationship

• A cyclic relationship repeats itself over time.
• They look like this

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Dynamic Equilibrium

• When the line on the graph always eventually
  comes back to the same place.
• They look like this