Use the table to answer the question.
Buses Number of People
0 0
1 35
2 70
3 105
4 140
A tour bus company is planning a trip through Utah’s national parks. The company plans to use 4 buses. Combined, the buses can fit up to 140 people. The table provided displays the number of people-to-bus ratio. At which ratio in the data table does the constant of proportionality appear? Write your answer as an ordered pair inside the parentheses provided.
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The constant of proportionality is the ratio between the number of people and the number of buses. From the table, we can see that for every additional bus, the number of people increases by 35. Therefore, the constant of proportionality is (35, 1) because for every 35 people, there is 1 bus.