Question

At Algorithms Pizza they have the exponential pizza, which is a 24-inch cheese pizza that costs $17.50. Each topping for the pizza costs $2.35. If Connor ordered the exponential pizza and was charged $29.25, how many toppings were on his pizza?

Answer 1

There were 5 toppings on his pizza.

Explanation:

From the information given, you can say that the total cost of the pizza would be equal to the cost of the 24-inch cheese pizza plus the result of multiplying the cost of each topping for the number of toppings, which can be expressed as:

c=17.50+2.35x, where:

c is the total cost

x is the number of toppings

Now, you can replace the total cost with $29.25 and solve for x:

29.25=17.50+2.35x

29.25-17.50=2.35x

11.75=2.35x

x=11.75/2.35

x=5

According to this, the answer is that there were 5 toppings on his pizza.