Question

At a party to celebrate a successful school play, the drama club bought 9 large pizzas. Each pizza had s slices. All together, there were 72 slices of pizza for the club to share.
Write an equation to describe this situation.
How many slices does each pizza have?

Answer 1

Answer:

Each pizza have 8 slices.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

At a party to celebrate a successful school play, the drama club bought 9 large pizzas.

Each pizza had s slices.

All together, there were 72 slices of pizza for the club to share.

Now, to find slices each pizza have.

Number of slices each pizza have = $s.$

Number of slices of pizza altogether = $72.$

Total number of pizza = $9.$

Now, to write an equation of this situation:

$9\times s=72$

$9s=72.$

So, to get the slices each pizza have we solve the above equation:

$9s=72$

Dividing both sides by 9 we get:

$s=8.$

Therefore, each pizza have 8 slices.