Apps taking too much space on macbook

Hi,

on the "about my Mac" storage info, it says that "apps" takes up 88gb worth of space but when I right click the "applications" folder to see how much space it takes up, it says ~10gb. so why is it taking up so much space according to the system info? I was reading around and some people said they had hundreds of apps installed and it only took up ~50gb. I have 47 apps and most are pre installed apps except for google chrome, vlc, spotify, and ms office, and some other ones. Please help!