A caterer prepares twice as many pizzas as she usually prepares for a large party. The caterer usually prepares 4 pizzas. The caterer also estimates that each party guest will eat 1 2 of a pizza. Drag and drop each expression into the correct boxes to complete the explanation. The expression that represents how many guests the pizzas can serve is. How many party guests will the pizzas serve? Drag and drop the number of guests into the box. The pizzas can serve guests.

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Cale Patel

5 January, 20:42

A caterer prepares twice as many pizzas as she usually prepares for a large party. The caterer usually prepares 4 pizzas. The caterer also estimates that each party guest will eat 1 2 of a pizza. Drag and drop each expression into the correct boxes to complete the explanation. The expression that represents how many guests the pizzas can serve is. How many party guests will the pizzas serve? Drag and drop the number of guests into the box. The pizzas can serve guests.

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Jacey Simpson · Answer 1

8 pizzas can serve 16 guests.

Step-by-step explanation:

So the caterer usually prepares 4 pizzas, but now she prepared twice as many, which means that now there are 4 • 2 = 8 pizzas.

Also, there is an estimation that each guest will eat 1/2 of a pizza.

In order to answer how many guests will 8 pizzas serve, we need to write an equation (pizzas per guest multiplied with number of guests equals the number of pizzas). Let's mark the unknown number of guests with x:

1/2 • x = 8

x = 8 / 1/2

x = 16

So, if each guest eats 1/2 of a pizza, then 8 pizzas will be enough to serve 16 guests.