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A Lineweaver-Burk Reciprocals? I
reciprocal plot is sort of remember

created by... learning about
those...
Finding reciprocals for
all the numeric values
on the horizontal and
vertical axes!

It's easy! For The reciprocal of Oh yeah! But
example, the why do we need
reciprocal of a is obtained by
2 is 1/2 = 0.5. calculating 1/a. reciprocals
here?

The reciprocal of 2
is 1/2 = 0.5

The reciprocal of 3
is 1/3 = 1.333...

The reciprocal of 4
is 1/4 = 0.25

I'll explain the theory If I take the reciprocals of the
later. FOr now, let's just substrate concentration values
(which are along the horizontal
try drawing a graph! axis), I get the following results:

Okay! The reciprocal of 1 is 1
The reciprocal of 2 is 0.5
The reciprocal of 4 is 0.25
The reciprocal of 10 is 0.1
The reciprocal of 20 is 0.05

I can't take the reciprocal of
zero, so I'm leaving it out!

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