Sadie wants to buy pizza for her friends. Each slice costs $4. She also wants to order breadsticks for $9. She has $49 to spend. Write and solve an equation to find how many slices of pizza she can buy.

asked Apr 10, 2018 231k views

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by Bread

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9+4x =49

Now solve for x using inverse operations.

9+4x =49.
-9 -9
4x=40
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4. 4

x=10 slices of pizza

Vital answered Apr 12, 2018

by Vital

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She can buy 10 pizzas plus the breadsticks for $9 dollars

EngineSense answered Apr 14, 2018

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