Question

There are two pizza ovens in a restaurant. Oven 1 burns three times as many pizzas as oven 2. If the restaurant had a total of 12 burnt pizzas on Saturday, how many pizzas did oven 2 burn?

A. 3
B. 6
C. 9
D. 12

Answer 1

Oven 2 burned 3 pizzas.

Step-by-step explanation:

If Oven 1 burns three times as many pizzas as Oven 2, we can use algebra to solve this problem. Let's assume that Oven 2 burns x pizzas.

Then Oven 1 would burn 3x pizzas.

According to the problem, the total number of burnt pizzas on Saturday is 12.

So we can write the equation: x + 3x = 12. Combining like terms, we get 4x = 12.

Dividing both sides by 4, we find that x = 3.

Therefore, Oven 2 burned 3 pizzas.