A baker spends a total of 40 hours per week baking cakes and pies. It takes 2.5 hours to bake one cake and 1.5 hours to bake one pie. The relationship between the number of cakes, , and the number of pies, , the baker can make in a week is represented by the equation .
In this equation, what does the term represent?
The total number of cakes and pies baked in a week.
The total hours spent baking cakes in a week.
The total hours spent baking pies in a week.
The total number of cakes baked in one hour.
