Carlos buys a box of frozen flavored ice sticks. 2/5 of the ice sticks are blue raspberry. Of the remaining ice sticks, 1/3 are grape, and the rest are cherry. If there are 48 blue raspberry and cherry flavored ice sticks altogether, how many ice sticks total are in the box?

Given:

of the ice sticks are blue raspberry.

Of the remaining ice sticks, are grape, and the rest are cherry.

There are 48 blue raspberry and cherry flavored ice sticks altogether.

To find:

The total number of ice sticks.

Solution:

Let x be the total number of ice sticks.

of the ice sticks are blue raspberry.

Blue raspberry

Remaining raspberry

Of the remaining ice sticks, are grape, and the rest are cherry.

Grape

Cherry

There are 48 blue raspberry and cherry flavored ice sticks altogether.

Therefore, the total number of ice sticks is 60.

probably .5

i can on others if necessary.