Question

You are selling pizza for a fundraiser. Slices of cheese sell for $1.50 a slice. Pepperoni sells for $2 a slice. End of an hour you have collected $30. You sold 9 slices of pepperoni. How many slices of cheese did you sell? Label answer

Answer 1

What we know:

Pepperoni is $2 ea

Cheese is $1.50 ea

We collected $30, We sold 9 slices pepperoni

9x$2= $18. Subtract this amount from the total amount earned $30, you have $12 left

Divide $12 by $1.50 cheese slice = 8 slices sold

A= 8