the 7th grade students at Palm Coast Middle School made some apples pies for a bake sale. The school cafeteria also donated 9 pi
es towards the effort. All the pies at the sale were cut into 8 pieces. If at least 224 pieces of pies were sold in all, how many pies did the students bake?
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Answer:
see explanation
Step-by-step explanation:
We require 2 equations with the recurring part after the decimal point.
Let x = 0.555..... → (1)
Multiply both sides by 10, then
10x = 5.555..... → (2)
Subtract (1) from (2) thus eliminating the recurring decimal
(10x - x) = (5.5555 - 0.5555 ), that is
9x = 5 ( divide both sides by 9 )
x =