Ms. leong owned an ice cream store and had chocolate ice cream and vanilla ice cream for sale. she sold ¾ of the chocolate ice cream and ½ of the vanilla ice cream. if, at the end of the day, she had 20 scoops of chocolate ice cream and 30 scoops of vanilla ice cream left, what is the total number of scoops of ice cream ms. leong had at the start of the day?
# of scoops is

140 scoops

explanation:

3/4 of 80 is 20 and 1/2 of 60 is 30. when you add 80 and 60 you get 140

the answer to this question is yes

example 2 – simplify: step 1: completely factor both the numerators and denominators of all fractions. step 2: change the division sign to a multiplication sign and flip (or reciprocate) the fraction after the division sign; essential you need to multiply by the reciprocal. step 3 : cancel or reduce the fractions.