Question

The snack stand at the local baseball field sells cherry and lemon snow cones. Yesterday, the stand sold 4 cherry snow cones for every 1 lemon snow cone sold. If there were 30 more cherry snow cones than lemon snow cones sold yesterday, how many snow cones were sold altogether?

Answer 1

Given:

The stand sold 4 cherry snow cones for every 1 lemon snow cone sold.

There were 30 more cherry snow cones than lemon snow cones sold yesterday.

To find:

The number of snow cones which were sold altogether.

Solution:

Let x be the number of lemon snow cone sold.

The stand sold 4 cherry snow cones for every 1 lemon snow cone sold.

So, number of cherry snow cone sold = 4x

There were 30 more cherry snow cones than lemon snow cones sold yesterday.

`4x-x=30`

`3x=30`

Divide both sides by 3.

`x=(30)/(3)`

`x=10`

Total number of snow cones sold is

`\text{Total number of snow cones sold }=x + 4x`

`\text{Total number of snow cones sold }=5x`

`\text{Total number of snow cones sold }=5(10)`

`\text{Total number of snow cones sold }=50`

Therefore, 50 snow cones were sold altogether.