Question

An animal reserve is home to 8 meerkats. It costs the reserve $1.50 per day to feed each meerkat. Write an equation with two variables that can be used to determine the total cost of feeding the reserve's meerkats for any number of days.​

Answer 1

y = 12x

Explanation:

First let's find the total cost of feeding all the meerkats per day:

8*1.5 = 12

That means it costs $12 to feed all the meerkats each day. Now we can construct our equation

Let y = cost

Let x = days

y = 12x

This equation tells us the cost for feeding the meerkats an x number of days