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Algebra Difficulty 1.5 Junior Find the answer Canada

A container of ice cream can make $6$ cones or it can make $4$ sundaes. If $5$ such containers of ice cream are used
to make $12$ cones, what is the
greatest number of sundaes that can be made with the ice cream that
remains?

Pick one

Solution

One container of ice cream can make $6$ cones.

Thus, $2$ containers of ice cream can
make $2\times6=12$ cones.

Since $12$ cones were made from $5$ containers of ice cream, and it takes
$2$ containers of ice cream to make
$12$ cones, then $5-2=3$ containers of ice cream remain
after the $12$ cones are made.

One container of ice cream can make $4$ sundaes.

Thus, the remaining $3$ containers of
ice cream can make $3\times4=12$
sundaes.

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