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Identify dependent & independent variables

When it is raining outside, you tend to stay in and watch TV. The number of hours of TV that you watch in a given week is twice the number of rainy days in that week. In the table below, yy is the number of hours of TV you watch in a week, and xx is the number of rainy days in that week.
Write an equation for the number of hours of TV you watch in a given week, yy, when there are xx number of rainy days that week.
Suppose you spent 1212 hours watching TV this week.
How many rainy days were there this week?
  • Your answer should be
  • an integer, like 66
  • an exact decimal, like 0.750.75
  • a simplified proper fraction, like 3/53/5
  • a simplified improper fraction, like 7/47/4
  • a mixed number, like 1 3/41\ 3/4
rainy days
xxyy
1122
2244
3366
4488