SOLUTION: Ms. Leong owned an ice cream store and had chocolate and vanilla ice cream for sale. She sold 3/ 4 of the chocolate ice cream and 1/2 of the vanilla ice cream. If she had 20 sc

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Question 1162346: Ms. Leong owned an ice cream store and had chocolate and vanilla ice cream for sale. She sold 3/
4 of the chocolate ice cream and 1/2 of the vanilla ice cream. If she had 20 scoops of chocolate ice cream and 30 scoops of vanilla ice cream left, how many scoops of ice cream did Ms. Leong have altogether at first?
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Chocolate:

She sold 3/4 of what she started with, so what she had left was 1/4 of what she started with.
She finished with 20 scoops of chocolate.
20 = 1/4 of what she started with means she started with 80 scoops of chocolate.

Vanilla:

She sold 1/2 of what she started with, so what she had left was 1/2 of what she started with.
She finished with 30 scoops of vanilla.
30 = 1/2 of what she started with means she started with 60 scoops of vanilla.