Question

to serve 1 person at a local restaurant it takes 10 minutes to serve pie people it takes 18 minutes write and solve an equation to find the number of minutes it will take to serve a party of 8

Answer 1

It takes 18 minutes to serve pie people? That sounds surreal.

If it takes 10 minutes to serve one person, it should take 80 minutes to serve 8 people.

If everyone in the party ordered a..pie...person..it would take 144 minutes to serve all eight people.

Equation to serve 8 people without ordering pie people: (If person = p and minutes = m)
$x = p \times 10$

Equation to serve 8 people if they all ordered a..pie..person..: (If person = p, minutes = m)

$x = p \times 18$

Hope this helps!