Astore manager realizes that he has too many jeans in stock. after he finished taking inventory, he has a total of 688 jeans. he decides to reduce the stock by having a buy one get one free sale. so every purchase will reduce the inventory by 2 pair of jeans. in this expression: 688-2x, what does the term 2x represent?

Atype of plant is introduced into an ecosystem and quickly begins to take over. a scientist counts the number of plants after mmonths and develops the equation p(m)= 19.3(1.089)^m to model the situation. most recently, the scientist counted 138 plants.assuming there are no limiting factors to the growth of the plants, about how many months have passed since the plants werefirst introduced? a)o 6.1b)0.6.6c)10 72d)o 23.1