Jack's pet dog has been prescribed 75 mg of a medicine per day. Each pill of the medicine has 15 mg of the medicine. Jack has to give his dog a total of 25 pills. If Jack gave his dog medicine for x days, use the expression below to interpret the situation.

15 • 25 − 75x

Part A: What does 375 represent?

Part B: What does the 75x represent?

Part C: What does the entire expression represent?

Question

Jack's pet dog has been prescribed 75 mg of a medicine per day. Each pill of the medicine has 15 mg of the medicine. Jack has to give his dog a total of 25 pills. If Jack gave his dog medicine for x days, use the expression below to interpret the situation.

15 • 25 − 75x

Part A: What does 375 represent? 

Part B: What does the 75x represent? 

Part C: What does the entire expression represent?

samgrace · Answer

375 would be 5 times 75, which is the total amount of medicine given to the dog (over 5 days.

75x would indicate a formula to yield how much medicine the dog would be given over x amount of days.

The entire expression represents 5 days of medical treatment for a dog?