S3 Maths Scribe-post Blog

To tell the difference between Inverse an Direct proportion you need to make sure that you have understood the concept of them both first of all.
Direct proportion = if you double one you have to double the other
Inverse proportion = if you double one then you halve the other
So what would this be either [...]

Mr Jones asked us to answer this:
It takes 6 men 10 days to build a wall
How long would it take 5 men?
What we did was made a table that looked like this
                                            Men                 Days
                                              6                      10
  He told us to find out              1                      60
what 1 man was and how         5                      12
many days it would take them
so we did.        
We worked [...]