On Monday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 336 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold

Ghetolay asked Jul 27, 2023

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Ghetolay asked Jul 27, 2023

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Answer:

Explanation:

Let the number of hamburgers be h and the number of cheeseburgers be c.

This means that:

Substituting c=3h into the first equation, it follows that 4h=336, and thus h=84.

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