Question

The cooking club made some pies to sell during lunch to raise money for a field trip. The cafeteria helped by donating 3 pies to the club. Each pie was then cut into 6 pieces and sold. There were a total of 72 pieces to sell. How many pies did the cooking club bake?

Answer 1

9 pies

Explanation:

From the question, we were given,

Number of pies = 3

Number of pieces cut from each pie = 6

Given total number of pieces to sell = 72

But the Number of pieces from 3 pies = 3×6

=18

so, Number of pieces the club needed to make is given = 72-18= 54

Since each pie is cut into 6 pieces

And number of extra pieces needed = 54

Then the number of pies the cooking club bake is 54/6= 9 pies

Therefore, the club bake 9pies