Question

A bakery sells 3 muffins for every 5 pizza pies. The bakery sold a total of 24 muffins and pizza pies together. How many of each kind did the bakery sell?

Answer 1

Hi,

Explanation:

`\begin {array} muffins&Pizza\ pies&calculus\\----&-----&-----\\3&5& 3+5=8\\*3&*3&*3\\9&15& 24\\----&-----&-----\\\end {array} \\`

The bakery have sold 9 muffins and 15 pizza pies.

Answer 2

3 for each

Explanation:

add 3 and 5 together, then divide the sum by 24

3 + 5 = 8 24 / 8 = 3