Question

There are 8 adults of your animal at the zoo. Now there is a baby of your animal! Let’s figure out costs. Write an expression to show how much it costs per week to keep the 8 adults where x is the number of pounds one adult eats in a day. Simplify your expression.

a) 8x
b) 8x/7
c) 8x + 1
d) 8x - 1

Answer 1

The expression to calculate the cost per week to keep 8 adults of your animal at the zoo is 56x.

Step-by-step explanation:

The cost per week to keep the 8 adults of your animal at the zoo can be calculated by multiplying the amount of food one adult eats in a day (represented by x) by the number of days in a week (7). Therefore, the expression to show the cost per week is 8x*7. Simplifying this expression, we get 56x.