A plain cheese pizza costs $8.50, and each topping (besides cheese and sauce)is 0.75. How many toppings can I get on my pizza if I want to spent $16?

10 Pizza Toppings

Step-by-step explanation: First, subtract $8.50 from $16, to get the amount you have left to spend n pizza toppings.

$16 - $8.50 = $7.50 left to spend on pizza toppings.

Next, divide 7.50 by 0.75 to get the amount of topping you can buy.

7.50 divided by 0.75 = 10.

So, if you spent $16, you could get 10 toppings on your pizza.

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

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