Ethan had 7 of his friends over. He ordered cheese pizzas and mozzarella sticks for the 8 of them. In all, there were 64 pieces of food. If each person had 5 slices of pizza, find the number of mozzarella sticks each person ate.(1 point) Each person ate mozzarella sticks.

Answer 1

To find the number of mozzarella sticks each person ate, we need to subtract the number of slices of pizza they ate from the total number of pieces.

Since there were 8 people and each person ate 5 slices of pizza, the total number of pizza slices eaten was 8 * 5 = <<8*5=40>>40 slices.

To find the number of mozzarella sticks, we subtract the number of pizza slices from the total number of pieces: 64 - 40 = <<64-40=24>>24 sticks.

So each person ate 24/8 = <<24/8=3>>3 mozzarella sticks. Answer: \boxed{3}.