An animal shelter spends $2.00 per day to care for each bird and $5.00 per day to care for each cat. Gabriel noticed that the shelter spent $44.00 caring for birds and cats on Friday. Gabriel found a record showing that there were a total of 13 birds and cats on Friday. How many birds were at the shelter on Friday?

the direct variation says that:

then the equation is of the form is given by:

            where k is the constant variation.

from the given table:

consider any value of x and m(x)=y

x = 2 and m(x)=y = 3

substitute these value in [1]; we have;

divide both sides by 2 we get;

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check:

put x = -1 and m(x) = -1.5

substitute in the equation:

-1.5 = -1.5                   true

therefore, the function m(x) represents a direct variation

graph of this function as shown below:

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step-by-step explanation:

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