Today, Nate has 100100100 bananas. He will eat 222 of them every day. Is the number of bananas Nate has left proportional to the number of days that pass?

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asked Dec 19, 2019 112k views

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Alessio Campanelli · Answer 1 · 2019-12-24T11:07:41+0000

Answer:

Not proportional.

Explanation:

We have been given that Nate has 100 bananas. He will eat 2 of them every day.

Let x represent number of days. So bananas eaten in x days would be
.

Total number of bananas, y, left after x days would be
y=100-2x

We know that two proportional quantities are in form
y=kx , where, k is constant of proportionality.

Since our equation is not in form
y=kx , therefore, number of bananas Nate has left is not proportional to the number of days that pass.