Question

Jack's pet dog has been prescribed x mg of a medicine per day. Each pill of the medicine has 10 mg of the medicine. Jack has to give his dog a total of 30 pills. If Jack gave his dog medicine for 9 days, use the expression below to interpret the situation. :

30 -

Part A: What does represent? (3 points)

Part B: What does the represent? (3 points)

Part C: What does the entire expression represent? (4 points)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Jack's pet dog has been prescribed x mg of a medicine per day. Each pill of the medicine has 10 mg of the medicine. Jack has to give his dog a total of 30 pills. If Jack gave his dog medicine for 9 days, use the expression below to interpret the situation. :

30 - 9x/10

Part A: What x/10 does represent? (3 points)

Part B: What does 9x/10 the represent? (3 points)

Part C: What does the entire expression represent? (4 points)

Answer 4

@Hero

Answer 5

brandon do you know the steps

Answer 6

Well, one way to do this is to just assign variables for each value.

t = total number of pills = 30
d = amount of days Jack's dog will receive his medicine
m = milligrams of medicine per pill so we can represent the expression as

t - (dx)/m

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Then, for Part A for example, you can describe x/10 as

"The ratio of the amount of medicine Jack's dog is prescribed per day over the amount of medicine in each pill (10 milligrams).

Answer 9

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