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:

$c=\frac{5}{6}+\frac{7}{12}+\frac{1}{4}=\frac{10+7+3}{12}=\frac{20}{12}=\frac{5}{4}=1\frac{1}{4}$

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