Vocabulary: What does it mean for an equation to express y in terms of x?

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8 November, 06:38

Vocabulary: What does it mean for an equation to express y in terms of x?

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To express y in terms of x is to find an expression that relates the value of x with y. This isto write a model, function, expression or formula that permits to input a value for x and the outcome will be the value of y ... For example if you have y = 2x, y is in terms of x and you can input different values of x to obtain corresponding values (outpus) of y.