Question

Hosting a dinner party for 38 people, you plan to serve peach pie for dessert. Each pie has 8 slices. How many pies must you buy to ensure each guest gets 1 slice?

Answer 1

5 pies

Explanation:

We know that 1 pie has 8 slices and there are 38 people.
That means if each guest is to have 1 slice, there needs to be 38 slices

Hence, to know how many pies we need to buy, we divide 38 by 8 ie `38/8=4.75`

However, there is no such thing as `4.75` of pies so we round it up to 5 pies in total.