Question

alice baked a certain number of pies. she gave 1/8 of the pies to her friends and 1/4 of the remainder to her neighbor. she was left with 63 pies. how many pies did alice bake at first?

Answer 1

Alice baked 96 pies in total for her neighbor

Answer 2

`x-(1)/(8)x-(1)/(4)(x-(1)/(8)x)=63\\(7)/(8)x-(1)/(4)((7)/(8)x)=63\\(3)/(4)((7)/(8)x)=63\\(21)/(32)x=63\\x=96`

96 pies