Mary eats 5 bananas and an additional 2 bananas when she works out for 2 hours. Represent the number of bananas that she eats when working out with an equation.

For this item, we let x be the number of hours she works out and y be the total number of bananas that she will be eating after the workout. The expression that best described the given above is,

y = 5 + 2x

5 is given as the y-intercept because of the initial condition.