Question

An adult elephant eats about 300 pounds of food each day. Write an expression to represent the number of pounds of food a herd of 12 elephants eat in 5 days?

Answer 1

For this case, the first thing we must do is define variables.

We have then:

x: number of days

y: number of total pounds.

For 12 elephants, we have the expression is:

$y = (12) * (300) * x\\y = 3600x$

Then, for the given number of days, we have x = 5.

Substituting the value of x we have:

$y = (3600) (5)$

Answer:

an expression to represent the number of pounds of food a herd of 12 elephants eat in 5 days is:

$y = (3600) (5)$

Answer 2

The find the answer for this particular question you would you would multiply 12 by 300 which is 3600, and you would then multiply that by 5 which is 18000