Question

Your baseball team places an order for 8 pizzas which is a total of 96 slices of pizza. There are 16 people on your team. If everyone eats the same amount, how many slices does each person get?

Answer 1

Answer: each person gets 6 pieces

Explanation:

96 slices of priced divided among 16 people (96/16) is 6

Answer 2

For this case we have to:

x: Be the variable that represents the amount of pizza slices that each person eats.

Making a division, taking into account that there are 16 people, we have:

`x = \frac {96} {16}\\x = 6`

Answer:

Everyone gets 6 slices of pizza