To test whether y = kx, you could calculate yx for each pair of readings and check whether:

  1. the values increase steadily
  2. the values are all zero
  3. the values are negative
  4. the values are the same within experimental uncertainty
Answer

D) the values are the same within experimental uncertainty

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