Question

The number of meat pies a baker made is 4 times the number of vegetable pies. He made 4,864 meat pies. How many more meat pies than vegetable pies did he make. Use a letter to represent the unknown before solving.

Answer 1

The equation is 4x=4864, where x is the number of vegetable pies.

The answer is 3648

Answer 2

4864=4x
1216=x

so there were 3648 more meat pies than veggie pies