Chocolate sweet tooth

Question

Angelo and Gina help their parents in the family ice cream parlor each day after school. The business sells an average of 3 gallons of chocolate ice cream per day. The store is open 6 days per week. Estimate the number of gallons of chocolate ice cream they sell each week. 

Answer 1

For this type of problem, you reduce the words to an equation. For example:

1. 3 gallons of ice cream/day = (3)X x being the number of days they will sell ice cream
2. Store open 6 days/week = (6) as X was defined above as the number of days, so x = 6
3. Now just put the two things together to get your answer: 3(x) = 3(6) = 18 gallons of chocolate ice cream/week.

I hope that helps you!