Cedric and gabe eat 9 pieces cake together, cedric eats 3 pieces and gabe eats another fourth of the whole cake. how many pieces of cake total?

Let's assume

total number of pieces in a cake is x

Gabe eats another fourth of the whole cake

so,

Gabe eats

cedric eats 3 pieces

so,

Cedric and Gade together eat

we are given

Cedric and Gabe eat 9 pieces cake together

so, we can set them equal

and we get

now, we can solve for x

Subtract both sides 3

Multiply both sides by 4

so,

total number of pieces are 24.........Answer

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