Solve this by making a table: A local restaurant offers a deal if you purchase 3 pizzas, you get 2 side dishes free. If you get a total of 8 side dishes, how many pizzas did you buy?
To solve this you divide 8 by 2 to find out how many deals they got. You find out they had 4 deals which means you have to multiply 4 by 3 because in each deal you get 3 pizzas. So all together they got 14 pizzas.
