variation
Variation and proportion are defined to be the relationship between two or more variables with regard to a constant of proportionality.
The traditional notation for direct proportionality is or, if using regular equality notation, .
Here, denotes the constant of proportionality.
Similarly, the traditional notation for inverse proportionality is or, with regular equality, .
For direct proportionality, to find the value of an unknown or , you may use the formula:
Similarly, for inverse proportion it would be: