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What does an equation mean? In the earlier pages of this book, if you saw an equation like
or
then the emphasis was on FINDING y or P from particular values of x. However, an equation has much more to it than that: they need not be SOLVED; they can just BE. An equation represents the relationship between two (or more) variables. That relationship could be expressed verbally, e.g. ‘When x gets larger, P gets larger’.
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Green, T., Webster, J. (1976). Modelling Systems. In: Managing Mathematically. Macmillan Business, Management and Administration Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02782-8_5
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