At a certain middle school, there are 26 students per teacher in every hometown. is the total number of students proportional to the number of teachers?

Expressing the ratio the way you have implies that the number of students is proportional to the number of home-room teachers (yes).

One would only know for sure if another data point were made available. In most real-life school districts, there are special-subject teachers, librarians, counselors, and others that count as "teachers" but are proportional to the number of schools, rather than the number of students. The total number of "teachers" is not proportional to the total number of students.

the volume is the product of the area of the base, 3x(3x+4), and the height, 3x-1

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