A pumpkin patch allows people to come pick pumpkins to carve in the fall every year. They charge $3 per person for a pumpkin. The remaining pumpkins get turned into cans of pie filling, 3 pumpkins to a can. They grew 83 pumpkins this year and made $96 selling pumpkins for carving. How many cans of pie filling will the pumpkin patch produce?
Thoughts? Step-by-step reasoning:
The pumpkin patch sold 96 / 3 = 32 pumpkins. They have 83 - 32 = 51 pumpkins left. Thus, the pumpkin patch will produce 51 / 3 = 17 cans of pie filling.
Thus, the answer is 17.