At an ice cream parlor, ice cream cones cost $1.10 and sundaes cost $2.35. One day, the receipts for a total of 172 cones and sundaes were $294.20. How many cones were sold?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-29T10:53:41

#88# cones were sold.

Cost of one ice cream cone is #$1.10#

Cost of one ice cream sundae is #$2.35#

Let the number of cones sold is #x# ,then number of sundaes

sold is #172-x :. 1.10 x + 2.35(172-x)= 294.20# or

# 1.10 x - 2.35 x + 404.20= 294.20# or

# - 1.25 x = 294.20 -404.20# or

# -1.25 x = -110.00 :. x= 110/1.25 or x= 88 #

#88# cones were sold [Ans]