Question

immediately after giving birth, one woman weighed 177 pounds. She looses approcimately 4 lbs per month. Her goal is to get back to her pre-pregnancy weight of 135 pounds. Write an equation that models the woman's weight loss per month.

Answer 1

4x-177=

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mx+b model equation.

x is the number of months

4 is the amount of pounds lost per month

177 is the number she was left at