Question

An ice cream parlor sold 7/12 gallons of vanilla ice cream and 1/4 gallons of strawberry ice cream. They sold 5/6 more of chocolate than vanilla and strawberry combined. how many gallons of Chocolate ice cream did the ice cream parlor sell.

Answer 1

let 'c' be the number of gallons of chocolate ice cream that was sold.

Since the ice cream parlor sold 5/6 more of chocolate than vanilla and strawberry combined, we have:

`c=(5)/(6)+(7)/(12)+(1)/(4)=(10+7+3)/(12)=(20)/(12)=(5)/(4)=1(1)/(4)`

thus, the ice cream parlor sold 1 1/4 gallons of chocolate ice cream