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If x varies directly as y, and x = 7.5 when y = 10, find x when y = 4

An art teacher made a copy of a small painting. to make the painting easier to see the teacher enlarged the area of the painting by 49%. let y respresent the area of the original painting. the expression below is one way to resperesnt the area of the new painting.find two equivalent expressions that would give the area of the new painting y+0.49y

Which of the symbols correctly relates the two numbers ?