This paper explains the characteristics of Transverse Mercator projections, the relationship of plane grids to USGS map cells, and the reasons DRG's and other USGS digital products are projected on the UTM.
âº If two amounts are proportional, they change at the same rate so that the relationship between them does not change: 1  Weight is proportional to size. 2  How far you go is directly proportional to how fast you go (= as one thing increases, the other increases at exactly the same rate).
If y is proportional to x, then the graph of y as a function of x will be a straight line passing through the origin with the slope of the line equal to the constant of proportionality: it corresponds to linear growth.