Question

Laura has already baked 9 pies, and she canbake 2 pies with each additional cup ofsugar she buys. With 14 additional cups ofsugar, how many total pies can Laura bake?piesSubmit

Answer 1

let x represent the number of cups of additional cups of sugar and y represents the total number of pies she can bake.

Given that;

"Laura has already baked 9 pies, and she can bake 2 pies with each additional cup of sugar she buys"

`y=9+2x`

With 14 additional cups of sugar;

`x=14`

substituting the value of x;

`\begin{gathered} y=9+2(14) \\ y=9+28 \\ y=37 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the total number of pies Laura can Bake with 14 additional cups of sugar is;