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At a restaurant, 28 people had lunch on Sundayat noon.1/7 of them had a hot dog1/4 of them had a hamburgerThe remaining people had pizza.How many people had pizza?

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ANSWER:

17

STEP-BY-STEP EXPLANATION:

We can calculate the number of people who had pizza using the following equation:

Let x be the number of people who had pizza:

[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{1}{7}\cdot28+\frac{1}{4}\cdot28+x=28 \\ \text{ solving for x} \\ 4+7+x=28 \\ x=28-4-7 \\ x=17 \end{gathered}[/tex]

The number of people who had pizza was 17

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