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in order for a pet to lose weight in a in a healthy manner, a veterinarian suggest and overweight large-breed do lise 2 pounds per week. if the expression x-2y represent this situation what must be true about the value of y

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It is given in the question that,

In order for a pet to lose weight in a in a healthy manner, a veterinarian suggest and overweight large-breed do loss 2 pounds per week.

And the given expression is

[tex]x-2y[/tex]

The overweight large-breed lose 2 pounds per week .

So if x  is the initial weight , so after first week, weight losed

[tex](x-2) pounds[/tex]

After 2 weeks, weight losed

[tex](x-2*2)pounds[/tex]

So after y weeks, weight losed

[tex](x-2y)pounds[/tex]

So here, y represents the number of weeks .