Question

The Cooking Club made some pies to sellduring lunch to raise money for anend-of-year banquet. The cafeteriacontributed two pies to the club. Each piewas then cut into eight pieces and sold.There were a total of 88 pieces to sell.Write an equation to find how many piesthe club made.

Answer 1

`8x+16=88`

Analysis:

We know the total of pieces of pies sold: 88. In this case, we need to express the equation in the function of x. So, X would be the number of pies sold.

As we sold 88 pieces of pieces, we can equal 8x+16. 8x would be the number of pieces of pies made by The Cooking Club. And 16 would be the pieces contributed by the cafeteria. It's 16 because the cafeteria contributed two pies and each pie was cut into eight pieces.