Question

Mrs Lola's class is selling frozen pizzas to earn money for a field trip. For every pizza sold the class makes $5;35 they already earned $182.90 twords there $750 goal how many more pizzas must they sell to earn $750 solve this problem first by using an arithmetic approach then by using an algebraic approach .compare the calculations you made using each approach.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what to do for the "arithmetic approach" but for the algebraic approach:

The equation you need to solve would be 5.35x + 182.90 = 750

when you solve it, you would get x = 106, meaning they would have to sell 106 more