Question

The cooking club made some cookie pie to sell at a ball game to raids money for new mathbooks. The cafeteria contributed four cookie pies to the sale. Each cookie pie was then cut into five pieces and sold. There were a total of 60 pieces to sell. HOw many cookie pies did the club make?

Answer 1

We rite an equation for that

Answer 2

60 slices - (4 pies*5 slices) = 40 slices

40 slices / (5 slices per pie) = 8 pies