Question

At a restaurant jars of tomato sauce are stored in boxes in the pantry. Each box contains 8 jars of tomato sauce. A cook uses 2 jars from 1 of the boxes. Which function shows the relationship between y, the total number of jars of tomato sauce remaining in the pantry, and x, the number of boxes in the pantry?

Answer 1

Answer:

y = 8x − 2

Step-by-step explanation:

x =the number of boxes

Total jars of tomato sauce is each box contains 8 jars so that is 8 x x=8x

2 jars were removed making it 8x-2

y will be 8x-2