Question

brad and sally made a total of 27 cakes for the school bake sale. brad made 5 more cakes than sally. find the numbers of cakes that sally made​

Answer 1

Answer: Sally baked 11 cakes

Explanation:

Alright, so you should go about solving this by setting up two equations. We will use b to represent Brad and s to represent Sally:

b+s=27

b=s+5 (because Brad made 5 more cakes than sally)

Solve using systems of equations. I will show the substitution method because it is faster in this scenario:

(s+5)+s=27

Solve for s:

s+5+s=27

2s=22

s=11

So Sally baked 11 cakes, which makes sense because that means that Brad baked 16