Club made pies to sell. Cafeteria gave four pies to the sell. Each pie cut into five piece, sold. Total 60 pieces to sell. How many pies did the club make?

Question

Please explain step-by-step. For the equation I don't understand why to divide first and not subtract.

Answer 1

Hi Meep, the first step is to find out how many pies in total were available to sell. You do this by dividing the total number of pieces by the number of pieces in each pie. Let n represent the number of pies.

 

n = 60 / 5

 

n = 12

 

A total of 12 pies were available to sell.

 

Subtract the four pies the cafeteria gave, leaves the number of pies the club made.

 

12 - 4 = 8

 

The club made 8 pies.

 

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