A bakery made 20 cherry pies, using 105 cherries for each pie. They threw away 34 cherries that were bad. If they used all the cherries they had, how many cherries did they start off with?
A. 2,134
B. 2,066
C. 2,100
D. 159

Question

A bakery made 20 cherry pies, using 105 cherries for each pie. They threw away 34 cherries that were bad. If they used all the cherries they had, how many cherries did they start off with?
	A. 	2,134
	B. 	2,066
	C. 	2,100
	D. 	159

math&ing001 · Answer

Each pie takes 105 cherries, so 20 cherry pie would take 20*105 cherries. Plus they thew away 34 cherries, so the initial number would be : (20*105)+34.