Question

An adult elephant eats about 300 pounds of food each day. Write an expression to

represent the number of pounds of food a herd of 14 elephants eats in 5 days.
14) can be used to represent the number of pounds
The expression 5 ? (300?
of food the herd eats in 5 days.

Answer 1

Answer: 21,000

Step-by-step explanation: 14 . 300 = 4,200

4,200 . 5 = 21,000

Answer 2

The more complex answer:

x: number of days

y: number of total pounds.

For 12 elephants, we have the expression is:

Then, for the given number of days, we have x = 5.

Substituting the value of x we have:

an expression to represent the number of pounds of food a herd of 12 elephants eat in 5 days is:

the easy answer:

The find the answer for this particular question you would you would multiply 12 by 300 which is 3600, and you would then multiply that by 5 which is 18000