Aspider ate 25% more bugs this month than last month. the spider ate 8 bugs last month. how many bugs did the spider eat this month?

the first sentence of this question, can be mathematically expressed as follows:

  (1)

where represents the bugs the spider ate last month, and represents the bugs the spider ate this month.

also, we know the spider ate 8 bugs last month, which can be represented by the equation below:

  (2)

well, in order to find the bugs the spider ate this month (), we have to substitute (2) in (1), because we already know the value of :

notice that   is    

finally:

this means the spider ate 10 bugs this month

d? maybe

step-by-step explanation:

well my understanding of this question is they want you to use the y=14.1x -2.3 and put the coordinates they gave you onto the line segment of   y=14.1x -2.3

step-by-step explanation: