Question

Pizza Palace and Saucy Sam’s both offer food delivery. Both have a deal for large pizzas. You have to buy a lot of pizzas for your big family and you want to get a good deal. Pizza Palace has a $5 delivery charge and charges $8.49 per pizza. Saucy Sam’s has lower priced pizza. Saucy’s pizzas are $4.99 each but his delivery charge is $12.

Answer 1

Now lets add up how much it would cost for a SINGLE pizza at both pizza places, which I am rounding up to the next dollar for this.

Explanation:

Pizza Palace:

5 + 9 = 14

Meaning, if you were to get many pizzas, just a single one delivered costs 14 bucks, but all you have to do to add more pizzas to it is:

5 + 9p = ?, where p is the number of pizzas ordered

Saucy Sam's:

5 + 12 = 17

Meaning, if you were to get many pizzas, a single one delivered costs 17 bucks, but all you have to do to add more pizzas to it is:

5p + 12 = ?, where p is the number of pizzas ordered

BUT, heres where it tricks you, lets take both equations and choose a number that equals P. We can choose........ 10.

5 x 10 + 12 = 62

This means, that 10 pizzas of Saucy Sam's costs 62 dollars

5 + 9 x 10 = 95

This means, that 10 pizzass of Pizza Palace costs 95 dollars.

Saucy Sams has the best price.