Question

A cow can give 5 gallons of milk if it eats 2 pounds of grass. Express x in terms of y, where y is the number of gallons of milk the cow gives, and x is the number of pounds of grass it eats.

Answer 1

Answer:y=2.5 x

Explanation:

Given

Cow give 5 gallon of milk if it eats 2 pound of grass

i.e. it gives 2.5 gallon of milk if it eats 1 pound of grass

So we can say cow given 2.5 times of milk in gallon for each pound it eats

If cow eats x pounds of grass then it must yield 2.5 times of milk

Suppose milk is denoted by y

therefore we can write

y=2.5 x

Therefore y=2.5 x represent the relation between grass and milk produced