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)

Question

Each person ate __ mozzarella sticks.

Answer 1

Since each person had 5 slices of pizza, and there were 8 people, there were a total of 5*8 = <<5*8=40>>40 slices of pizza eaten.
If there were 64 pieces of food in all, and 40 slices were of pizza, then there were 64-40 = 24 mozzarella sticks eaten.
Therefore, each person ate 24/8 = <<24/8=3>>3 mozzarella sticks. Answer: \boxed{3}.