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 x is the number of bananas Tommy eats and y is the total number of pieces of fruit the monkey eats.

Answer 1

Monkey to Tommy = 2:1
x = (y-4)/2
y = 2x + 4

For x, we must first work out the amount of bananas the monkey eats by subtracting the total amount of fruit by the amount of apples, giving us the amount of bananas - them dividing that number by 2 as the ratio is 2:1.

For y, we double x which is our amount of bananas that tommy eats as the ratio is 2:1 them add on the amount of apples which is 4.

Answer 2

The required equation is :
`2x+4`

Explanation:

Tommy's monkey eats 4 apples in the morning. The monkey also eats two bananas for every banana that Tommy eats.

Let Tommy eats x bananas, then the monkey eats 2x bananas.

Then, the required equation will be :

`2x+4`