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?

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.

Divide both sides by 3.

Total number of snow cones sold is

Therefore, 50 snow cones were sold altogether.

what is the starting amount? the question is not clear sorry.

step-by-step explanation:

answer: yes, he is correct

step-by-step explanation: 10x-1=59

                                              1-1=0     59+1=60

60/10=x=6