Question

A local restaurant offers a deal if you purchase 3 medium pizzas you get 2 side dishes for free.if u get a total of 8 side dishes,how many pizzas did you buy?

Answer 1

Answer - 12 Pizzas

Solution -

Restaurant offers 2 side dishes if you purchase 3 pizzas.

They will offer 1 side dish if you buy
`(3)/(2) =1.5`pizzas

They will offer 8 side dishes if you buy 1.5 × 8 = 12 pizzas

∴ Therefore, in order to get 8 side dishes, you have to buy 12 pizzas.

Answer 2

According to the question it is given that if he purchased 3 medium pizzas, he get 2 side dishes for free.

So, we have to find the number of medium pizza bought to get 8 side dishes free.

Since on buying 3 medium pizzas, we get 2 side dishes free.

On buying 6 medium pizzas, we will get 4 side dishes free.

On buying 9 medium pizzas, we will get 6 side dishes free.

On buying 12 medium pizzas, we will get 8 side dishes free.

Therefore, to get a total of 8 side dishes, we would buy 12 medium pizzas.