Adog owner is told by the veterinarian that his dog, max, is overweight and needs to lose 4 to 5 pounds in order to live a healthy life. the dog weighs 126 pounds when he is put on a special diet to aid in the weight loss. the vet predicts that the diet will allow max to lose 4 ounces per week. max is brought to the vet every 2 weeks for a weight check. write an equation to represent the doctor's prediction, and the relationship between max's weight in pounds, y, and the number of times max's weight is checked, x, in periods of two weeks . reduce all answers to the nearest tenth of a number.

Cladistics is a way of classifying organisms by examining the characteristics of their ancestors and descendants and depicting the relationships in a cladogram. which of the following best describes a challenge in classifying organisms this way? a. there are millions of species on earth, and a cladogram is not a practical means for classifying all of them. b. it is impossible to tell which organisms are most closely related to each other using a cladogram. c. cladograms are detail-oriented and do not provide a useful understanding of evolutionary relationships. d. there is a limited number of ways to organize the information, so most cladograms end up looking very similar.