Question

The Cooking Club made some pies to sell

during lunch to raise money for a field
trip. The cafeteria helped by donating
three pies to the club. Each pie was then
cut into six pieces and sold. There were a
total of 72 pieces to sell. How many pies
did the club make?​

Answer 1

There are 9 pies that the club needed to make.

Since we have given that

Number of pies = 4

Number of pieces cut from each pie = 7

So, total number of pieces they needed = 91

Number of pieces from 4 pies =

so, Number of pieces the club needed to make is given by

Since each pie is cut into 7 pieces.

And number of extra pieces needed = 63

So, Number of pies would be

Hence, there are 9 pies that the club needed to make.