70 / 35 = 2
So the 70 pound dog weights double the weight of the 35 pound dog, so he will eat twice as much.
2 x 2.5 = 5 cups
Meaning he will eat 5 cups of dry dog food a day.
By the same logic a 140 pound dog would have to eat twice what a 70 pound dog eats, that is 10 cups of dry dog food a day, so 7 1/2 cups are not enough.
Challenge: per pound a dog eats more than a cat. Since you know a 140 pound dog eats 10 cups, you can dive 140 by 10, to find out that each cup feeds 14 pounds, so half a cup would be the amount of food to feed a 7 pound dog, meaning that a dog weighing 1 pound less than a 8 pound cat would need the same amount of food, so it eats more than a cat.
Answer:
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Step-by-step explanation:
Answer: x = 35
Explanation: In this problem, notice that D is being divided by 5,
so to get D by itself, we need to multiply both sides of the equation by 5.
Notice that on the left side, the 5 and 5 cancel
each other out, so we are just left with D.
On the right side, we have (7)(5) which is 35.
So x = 35.
Finally, remember that we can check our answer
by plugging a 35 back into the original equation.
So we have
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Since this is a true statement, we know that our answer is correct, x = 35.