Question

Pete and his friend Danny volunteered to bring sandwiches for lunch at a homeless shelter. They bought 7 loaves of bread. Each loaf had 18 slices of bread. The boys used up all the bread to make the sandwiches. They used 2 slices to make each sandwich. How many sandwiches did they make for the shelter?

Answer 1

63 sandwiches

Explanation:

Pete and his friend Danny volunteered to bring sandwiches for lunch at a homeless shelter

They brought 7 loaves of bread

Each loaves have 18 slices

They used 2 slices each to make the sandwich

The first step is to calculate the total number of slices

Sinces 7 loaves of bread are used and each of them contain 18 slices then, the total number of slices can be calculated as follows

= 7 ×18

= 126 slices

Therefore since 2 slices of bread is used to make one sandwich then, the number of sandwiches that was made can be calculated as follows

= 126/2

= 63

Hence 63 sandwiches were made for the shelter