Question

Which real-world scenario can be described by the algebraic expression

Answer 1

Answer:

D) buying $p$ pizzas and dividing them among 8 people

Step-by-step explanation:

Question:  

Which real-world scenario can be described by the algebraic expression p/8 ?

buying pizzas and giving 8p pizzas to each of 8 friends

buying 8 pizzas each of which has p slices

buying p pizzas and giving 8 slices to a friend

buying p pizzas and dividing them among 8 people

Solution:

The expression given is:

$\frac{p}{8}$

The expression shows that a quantity $p$ is divided into 8 parts or among 8 people.

The statement which best represents the expression is :

buying p pizzas and dividing them among 8 people

For the above real world scenario a total of $p$ pizzas are bought and then it is divided among 8 people.

Thus, share of pizza for each person can be represented by the expression:

$\frac{p}{8}$

This algebraic expression describes the above real world scenario.

Answer 2

Answer:

buying p pizzas and dividing them among 8 people

Step-by-step explanation:

imaging the p being the pizza and the 8 being people

and then you have ????? pizzas