Question

Tommy has a pet monkey. Every day, his monkey eats 4 apples in the morning. The monkey also eats two bananas for every banana that Tommy eats.

Write an equation to describe this situation where x is the number of bananas Tommy eats and y is the total number of pieces of fruit the monkey eats.

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Answer 3

Tommy has a pet monkey. Every day, his monkey eats 4 apples in the morning. The monkey also eats two bananas for every banana that Tommy eats.

x = # of bananas Tommy eats
the monkey eats two bananas for each one of Tommy's, so the monkey eats 2x

add this onto the 4 apples to get the total # of fruit eaten by the monkey each day