Question

At a party to celebrate a successful school play, the drama club bought 9 large pizzas. Each pizza had s slices. All together, there were 72 slices of pizza for the club to share.

Write an equation to describe this situation.
How many slices does each pizza have?

Answer 1

Write an equation to describe this situation.

9s=72

How many slices does each pizza have?

8

Answer 2

Each pizza have 8 slices.

Explanation:

Given:

At a party to celebrate a successful school play, the drama club bought 9 large pizzas.

Each pizza had s slices.

All together, there were 72 slices of pizza for the club to share.

Now, to find slices each pizza have.

Number of slices each pizza have =
`s.`

Number of slices of pizza altogether =
`72.`

Total number of pizza =
`9.`

Now, to write an equation of this situation:

`9* s=72`

`9s=72.`

So, to get the slices each pizza have we solve the above equation:

`9s=72`

Dividing both sides by 9 we get:

`s=8.`

Therefore, each pizza have 8 slices.