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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 12 elephants eat in 5 days?

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For this case, the first thing we must do is define variables.

We have then:

x: number of days

y: number of total pounds.

For 12 elephants, we have the expression is:


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

Substituting the value of x we have:


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Answer:

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


y = (3600) (5)

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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
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