An ice cream shop makes vanilla and chocolate ice cream. The vanilla ice cream machine has a 180-cup capacity, and it sells 20 cups per day. The chocolate ice cream machine has a 140-cup capacity, and it sells 16 cups per day. Write and solve an equation to show when the two machines will have the same amount of ice cream left.(1 point)

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Let x represent the number of days it takes for the two machines to have the same amount of ice cream left.

180 - 20x = 140 - 16x
180 + 16x = 140 + 20x
40 = 4x
x = 10

Therefore, it will take 10 days for the two machines to have the same amount of ice cream left.