My question is: Emma bought a loaf of bread that had a certain number of slices. Her little cousin Andy ate 3 slices from the bread at two different points in time, and then Emma decided she would make toast with the remaining slices. If she uses 2 slices of bread to make 1 piece of toast bread, how many slices were in the original loaf if she was able to make 10 pieces of toast bread and had 1 slice of bread left? Your thoughts:
Little Andy ate 3 slices 2 times giving a total of 3 * 2 = 6 slices of bread. 1 piece of toast bread requires 2 slices of bread so 10 pieces need 10 * 2 = 20 slices of bread. There is 1 slice of bread left so in total there were 6 + 20 + 1 = 27 slices of bread in the loaf. The final answer: 27.