Question

15.A snack bar sells scoops of strawberry, chocolate, andvanilla ice cream. On Monday, the snack bar sold100 scoops in total of these flavors of ice cream. Thesnack bar sold 3 times as many scoops of chocolate asit did strawberry and 2 times as many scoops ofvanilla as it did chocolate. How many scoops ofchocolate ice cream did the snack bar sell onMonday?

Answer 1

54 scoops of chocolate.

1) Gathering the data from the question

Monday = 100 scoops in total

Snack bar sells 3x chocolate

x strawberry

1.5x Vanilla ( 3 : 1.5 = 2)

How many chocolate scoops?

2) Setting the expression:

3x+x+1.5x=100

4x +1.5x=100

5.5x=100

x=18.1 approximately then x = 18

Answer

3x = Chocolate

3*18 = 54 chocolate scoops