Question

On Thursday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 234 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was two times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Thursday?

Answer 1

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Let's call the hamburgers h and the cheeseburgers c.

h+c=234

c=2h

Let's plug this value of c into the first equation to solve for h.

h+2h=234

3h=234

Divide both sides by 3.

h=78

Therefore, 78 hamburgers were sold on Thursday.

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