Next, our goal is to change one of these guys and see how our initial rate is influenced. So let's keep our initial hydroxide concentration the same and only change our initial concentration of methyl acetate. So let's double it. So we double it to 0.1 molar, and this guy stays at 0.5
molar, and we see that our initial rate also doubles to 0.4. Now, that means that because we double this and our initial rate doubles, these guys are directly proportional. In other words, if you double this guy, you must double the initial rate.