SOLUTION: Hi, Im studying really hard for my E.O.C for the end of the year in Algbra we have it on friday, the thing is i am realy not good with word problems. Do you think you could help m

Question 618195: Hi,
Im studying really hard for my E.O.C for the end of the year in Algbra we have it on friday, the thing is i am realy not good with word problems. Do you think you could help me get started on this i dont know which algebra expression to use???. if you could get back to me as soon as possable that would be great! :)
Please help.
Problem: Only Chocolate and vanilla ice cream cones are sold at an ice cream store. In one day, the number of chocolate cones sold was 1 more than 4 times the number of vanilla cones sold. A toatle of 121 cones were sold that day.
Let c= the number of chocolate cones sold
Let v= the number of vanilla cones sold
- Write equations to determine the number of chocolate cones that day.
- Use the equations to determine the number of chocolate cones sold that day.
Show your work using words,numbers, and/or diagrams.
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
c= number of chocolate cones sold
v= number of vanilla cones sold
"The number of chocolate cones sold was 1 more than 4 times the number of vanilla cones sold" means that c was 1 more than , or

If only chocolate and vanilla cones are sold, and the total sold was 121, it means that

The two equations form the system of equations

That system asks to be solved by substitution,
According to the first equation, the expression is equal to c,
so you substitute that expression for c in the second equation and get
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Then you substitute that value into to get
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