Question

Natalia paid $38.95 for three medium sized pizzas and a salad. Solve an equation to find the cost of one pizza,p, if Natalia paid $11.98 for the salad

Answer 1

ANSWER

The cost of each pizza is

$8.99 \: dollars$

EXPLANATION

We were given that, Natalia paid $38.95 for three medium sized pizzas and a salad.

Let
$p$
represent the cost of each pizza and

$s$

be the price of a salad.

Then we can write the equation,

$3p + s = 38.95...(1)$

But we were also told that Natalia paid $11.98 for a salad. This means the cost of a salad is $11.98.

This implies that,

$s = 11.98...(2)$

We now put equation (2) into equation (1) to get,

$3p + 11.98 = 38.95$

We now solve for p to obtain,

$3p = 38.95 - 11.98$

This gives us,

$3p = 26.97$

We divide through by 3 to get,

$p = 8.99$

Therefore the cost of each pizza is $8.99.