Question

Tommy has a pet monkey. Every day, his monkey eats 4 apples in the morning. The monkey also eats two bananas for every banana that Tommy eats Write an equation to describe this situation where xis the number of bananas Tommy eats and y is the total number of pieces of fruit the monkey eats

Answer 1

y = 4 + 2x

This equation shows that y, the number of fruit the monkey eats, is equal to 4 apples plus 2 times the amount of bananas Tommy eats.

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