document.write( "Question 1205764: At a pizza party, seven people will equally share five pizzas. How much pizza will each person receive?
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document.write( "Their answer, 5/7, is correct if we assume the pizzas are \r\n" );
document.write( "all the same size. Otherwise, we'd have to go into the square\r\n" );
document.write( "inches of pizza.  The most common size diameters for pizzas \r\n" );
document.write( "are 12 and 14 inches.  Their radii are half their diameters \r\n" );
document.write( "or 6 and 7 inches.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Suppose there were 3 14-inch pizzas and 2 12-inch pizzas.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the area of each 14-inch pizza would be \r\n" );
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document.write( ", we would have 3 of those or  square\r\n" );
document.write( "inches.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the area of each 12-inch pizza would be\r\n" );
document.write( ", we would have 2 of those or  square\r\n" );
document.write( "inches.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the 5 pizzas would have a total of  square inches.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we would divide that up 7 ways and get  square inches.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Each person would get about 48.5 square inches of pizza.\r\n" );
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