Question

Suppose you buy 3 pizzas for a party. Each pizza is cut into 8slices. Twenty slices are eaten. How many pizzas

were eaten?

Answer 1

2 and a half pizzas were eaten

Explanation:

3 pizzas divided into 8 slices is equal to 24 slices. So if 20 slices were eaten, we can do simple math to solve this

There are two ways to do this:

A. divide 20 by 8 to get 2.5

B. subtract a pizza (8 slices) from 20 to get 12. Subtract another pizza (8 more slices) to get 4. The 4 slices left are equal to another half pizza. So in total, there were 2.5 pizzas eaten