Jack's pet dog has been prescribed 40 mg of a medicine per day. Each pill of the medicine has 12 mg of the medicine. Jack has to give his dog a total of 20 pills. If Jack gave his dog medicine for x days, use the expression below to interpret the situation.

12 • 20 − 40x

Part A: What does 240 represent?

Part B: What does the 40x represent?

Part C: What does the entire expression represent?

Question

Jack's pet dog has been prescribed 40 mg of a medicine per day. Each pill of the medicine has 12 mg of the medicine. Jack has to give his dog a total of 20 pills. If Jack gave his dog medicine for x days, use the expression below to interpret the situation.

12 • 20 − 40x

Part A: What does 240 represent? 

Part B: What does the 40x represent? 

Part C: What does the entire expression represent?

grace111 · Answer

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