there are 2 cherry pies. Each pie has 6 slices. The bakery gave out 8 slices. write an equation to represent how much pie was given away.

The bakery gave out 4 slices of pie.

Step-by-step explanation:

We first find out how many slices were in both cherry pies. We can do this by multiplying 2 by 6 and get 12. Because they gave out 8 slices, they gave away 4 slices. An equation for this would be (x equals how much pie was given away):

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!