Question

Michelle's mother bought 7 large pizzas for her birthday party. Each large pizza is cut into eighths. if 5/8 of the total slices were eaten, how many slices were left over?
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Answer 1

So we know that there are 8 slices per large pizza (7), so a total of 56 slices
we would set up a proportion
5/8=x/56
8 times 7 gives you 56, and we would do that same thing to the 5 (multiply it by 7) to get 35?
so now we know that 35 out of 56 slices were eaten
56-35 is 21
so there are 21 slices left over