Question

in order for a pet to lose weight in a in a healthy manner, a veterinarian suggest and overweight large-breed do lise 2 pounds per week. if the expression x-2y represent this situation what must be true about the value of y

Answer 1

It is given in the question that,

In order for a pet to lose weight in a in a healthy manner, a veterinarian suggest and overweight large-breed do loss 2 pounds per week.

And the given expression is

`x-2y`

The overweight large-breed lose 2 pounds per week .

So if x is the initial weight , so after first week, weight losed

`(x-2) pounds`

After 2 weeks, weight losed

`(x-2*2)pounds`

So after y weeks, weight losed

`(x-2y)pounds`

So here, y represents the number of weeks .