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[thestoopgallants]

[rapidpixeladventure]

See about Drilling the Ice Horror to give you some time to get out before the robot can consume us fully.

{Combat Phase Start} [1][Drill Punch]

Gestalt: [2][Lunge Attack][Dodge]

Gestalt launches themselves at the [Wounded Rot Ice Horror], slicing them along the spine before dodging out of the way to give your mech room.

You lurch forward and pour all of your weight into a fearsome stab. A few of the remaining gears lock into place and the drill arm whirs to life. The spinning drill slices through the Rot’s flesh and sends bit of it’s stony carapace flying in all directions. 

It is doing real damage for once.

The Rot howls and smashes it’s club-like claws against the front of the mech.  You go skidding backwards from the sheer force. Even injured this Rot is a force to be reckoned with. The chest caves in and the mechanisms in the center of the robot begin to fail. 

This fight is coming down to the wire. The mech, the Rot and you are all hanging on by a thread.

{The machine is devouring you whole as it struggles to stay active… -2 MANA}

{You have 4 actions left before the Mining Mech consumes you.}

[STATUS](new!)[QUESTS][MAP]

What Should We Do Now?

[pwnthesat]

Blue Book 2nd Ed. - Test #3, Section 5, Question # 6 (another site already has an explanations, but its confusing)

Lemme see if I can do better then. :) (I'm assuming you know the basic proportionality rules.)

The question tells you that x is inversely proportional to y. There are a few ways we could write that, but it's probably best here to go with the definition you'd find in most math texts (which is not necessarily the one you'll want to use most often on the SAT).

If x and y are inversely proportional, then xy = k, where k is some constant.

From here, you're going to treat this kinda like a solve for expressions question. You have a starting point, xy = k, and you know you want to end with 1/(x^2) somehow.

The definition of direct proportionality is that a and b are directly proportional if a = kb, where k is some constant (using a and b here instead of x and y so as not to confuse). Now replace b with 1/(x^2) respectively, and you know where you want to go:

So take steps to get there. Start with the inverse proportionality statement.

Step 1: divide by x.

Step 2: square both sides.

Step 3: do a little rearranging to get exactly what you want.

Note that a constant squared is still a constant, just a different one (probably). So what you've really got here is a proportionality statement.

Since the question asked which choice is directly proportional to 1/(x^2), we have our answer. It's y^2.