Question

The Cooking Club made some pies to sell ata basketball game to raise money for thenew math books. The cafeteria contributedfour pies to the sale. Each pie was then cutinto five pieces and sold. There were a totalof 60 pieces to sell. How many pies did theclub make?

Answer 1

We know that the cooking club made pies to sell, but we don't know how many pies the cooking club made. So, let the number of pies the cooking club made be x.

Now the cafeteria contributed 4 pies that were cut into 5 pieces and sold. So the cafeteria contributed

`4\text{ pies }*5\text{ pieces = 20 pieces }`

The cafeteria contributed 20 pieces.

Also we were told that a total of 60 pieces were sold. So what the club sold should be 60 pieces in total minus what the cafeteria sold.

So we have

`60-20=40\text{ pieces }`

The club sold 40 pieces.

Now remember that a pie is cut into 5 pieces, so this means that 40 pieces should make

`(40)/(5)=8\text{ pies}`

Hence the club made 8 pies