At Shannons birthday Kira ate 3 pieces, Brazdley ate 2,Shauna ate 4, and Sammi ate 3 pieces of pizza. Now 1/4 of the pizza is left. How many pieces was the pizza originally cut into?

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
14 years ago

Solve for x

(3/4)x = 12
x = 12/(3/4)
x = 12 * (4/3)
x = 48/3
x = ?

User Icon for Damon Damon answered
14 years ago

number of pieces = n

3 + 2 + 4 +3 = (3/4)n

12 *(4/3) = n

User Icon for Anonymous Anonymous answered
14 years ago

n=16

User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
11 months ago

To find out how many pieces the pizza was originally cut into, we can start by adding up the number of pieces each person ate.

Kira ate 3 pieces.
Brazdley ate 2 pieces.
Shauna ate 4 pieces.
Sammi ate 3 pieces.

Together, they ate 3 + 2 + 4 + 3 = 12 pieces of pizza.

We're also given that 1/4 of the pizza is left. This means that 3/4 (1 - 1/4) of the pizza was eaten.

Since 12 pieces represent 3/4 of the pizza, we can set up the following equation to find the total number of pieces:

(3/4) * x = 12

To solve for x (the total number of pieces), we can multiply both sides of the equation by (4/3) to cancel out the fraction:

x = 12 * (4/3)

x = 16

Therefore, the pizza was originally cut into 16 pieces.