Monique goes out for coffee once per week. She has already spent $40.86 this year on her coffees and each one is $4.54. There are 27 weeks left in this school year for Monique. If she continues getting coffee at this rate how much money will she have spent on coffee by the end of the year?

the direct variation says that:

then the equation is of the form is given by:

            where k is the constant variation.

from the given table:

consider any value of x and m(x)=y

x = 2 and m(x)=y = 3

substitute these value in [1]; we have;

divide both sides by 2 we get;

⇒

check:

put x = -1 and m(x) = -1.5

substitute in the equation:

-1.5 = -1.5                   true

therefore, the function m(x) represents a direct variation

graph of this function as shown below:

the answer will be