Question

What is an inverse relationship?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_relationship

Answer 2

One goes up, while the other goes down. Two people on a seesaw have an inverse "height from the ground" relationship.

Answer 3

An inverse relationship is the opposite of a proportional relationship. With a proportional relationship if say one variable increases then the other increases accordingly i.e a=b. With an inverse relationship however if one variable increases then the other decreases accordingly i.e a=1/b