23. An ice cream shop sells ice cream cones with exactly 1 of 3 ice cream flavors in the cone. The 3 flavors are vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. Last Saturday, the shop sold 42 cones. It sold 11 more with chocolate than with vanilla and 2 more with vanilla than with strawberry. How many cones with strawberry ice cream did the shop sell that Saturday?

Answer and Explanation

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Correct Answer is A

Explanation

Assume that x straoberry flavors are sold, then (x+2) ranilla flavors are sold, and (x+2)+11 chocolate flavors are sold, so x+(x+2)+[ (x+2)+11]=42, solve x=9