Question

the company for ocean has already cleared the Earth oceans of 125 million pounds of trash they are committed to picking up exactly 550 pounds of trash per day . write an equation to represent P pounds of trash removed as a function of number of the days passed? how many years have passed if the the company for ocean has a total of 125,602,250 pounds cleared from the ocean ?

Answer 1

1. pounds of trash cleared, P = 550D+125,000,000

2. 125,602,250=550D+ 125,000,000

550d=602250, therefore D= 602250/550 = 1095 days=1095/365= 3 years