This is a subject I struggled with the first time I took it. Ironically, this was the engineering version of it. It wasn't until I took the rigorous, axiomatic version that everything clicked.

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A linear relationship (or linear association) refers to a relationship between two variables that can be represented with a straight line on a graph. As one variable increases or decreases, the other ...