Math question, manipulating a table to make a linear graph?

Question

2 0.375
4 0.188
6 0.125
8 0.094
10 0.075

These are the values of the graph. (x,y) I have to manipulate the x coordinates in any way so that they make what looks like a linear graph when u plot the points. Right now it looks like a curve...can anyone help?

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The points are
(2, 0.375)
(4, 0.188)
(6, 0.125)
(8, 0.094)
(10, 0.075)

So these are the 5 coordinates in (x,y) format. I have to manipulate the x values to make them match with the y coordinates to make a linear graph. Any idea?

no...all the x values have to be put into the same formula...so liek..all of them have to be multiplied by 2...or all of them have to be rooted..or something like that....i cant just calculate the x values from the slope i find

Answer 1

There are several ways to do this, but I'd approach it this way.

If you take any two points, you can draw a streight line. Let's say, the first and the last points will be the end points.

You can first plot these two points, and draw a line.

You can find the slope of the line by using the slope formula, m=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1). You can then arrive at a standard formula for the line by plugging in the x,y value of the first point.

Now, you have the relationship of x and y in mathmatical formula.

Take the in-between points, and plug in the Y value. Solve for X.... Now you have it, Y value associated with new X value.

Is this what you wanted to know?

Answer 2

if jacky has 4 $5 then jackie has $20. that could look like: 4(5)=20 this suggests that if she used $10 she spent a million/2 of her money. so Jacky has a million/2 of her money that could look like: 10/20 (the staggering is the quantity of money jacky has left after paying for the blouse) which reduces via 10 to: a million/2