Question

Each Thursday the 11 kindergarten students in Miss Goodson's class are each allowed one slice of pie, one cup of orange juice, and two doughnut holes. The leftovers will be given to the custodian on the night shift. This Thursday the caterer has left 2 pies that each can be cut into 8 slices, 18 cups of orange juice and 33 doughnut holes. How many slices of pie are left for the custodian? How many cups of orange juice are left for the custodian? How many doughnut holes are left for the custodian?

Answer 1

The leftovers given to the custodian can be calculated by simply substracting the food items required for the students from the food items given by caterer. Thus 5 slices of pie, 7 cups of orange juice and 11 doughnut holes are left for the custodian as shown below in detail-