Question

Taylor backed a cake to serve after dinner. Suppose there are 2 pieces of the cake left over, but you don’t know how many pieces were in the whole cake. Explain how you could find the number of pieces in the cake was left.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Answer 2

I would create an equation involving two letters to explain the situation.

Let w = whole cake

Let x = portion of the cake that was eaten

w - x = 2