Tommie and Alethea plant a summer garden in their backyard. Alethea plants 3 rows of carrots for every 1 row of pepper plants. If Alethea plants 9 rows of carrots and Tommie plants twice that amount, who plants twice that amount, who plants more rows of pepper plants? HEL

The way this question is worded doesn't make sense. But I believe Tommie is the one who planted more pepper.

Tommie planted the most.

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;

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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: