An initial population of 2 bunnies each has 6 babies per month. Using x for months and y for the number of bunnies, write the equation that models this situation.

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3 January, 04:00

An initial population of 2 bunnies each has 6 babies per month. Using x for months and y for the number of bunnies, write the equation that models this situation.

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Madilynn Briggs · Answer 1

x = 3y

Step-by-step explanation:

In this question, we are asked to model an equation that clearly mimics what we have in the question using certain type of variables.

Now initially, we are told that we have 2 bunnies having 6 babies. what does this tell us?

Looking at this, we can see that the number of babies is exactly 3 times the number of bunnies. More like saying 3 times the number of bunnies equal the number of babies.

so leveraging in this finding and applying the variable, we can say each of the 2 bunnies has 3 babies per month.

Mathematically, this is same as x bunnies = 3y babies per month