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 bananas Tommy eats and y is the total nuber of fruits the monkey eats

Answer 1

The equation could be set up for one day as:

y = 2x + 4

Or---
If you need a time variable for each day:

Let t = number of days

y = (2x + 4)t

Answer 2

The equation to describe this situation would be y=2x+4