Question

The Booster Club sells 240 cheeseburgers. 1/4 of the cheeseburgers had pickles, 1/2 of the remaining burgers had onions, and the rest had tomato. How many cheeseburgers had tomato?

Answer 1

60 cheeseburgers

Explanation:

Find the fraction of cheeseburgers with tomato as 1 - 1/4 - 1/2 = 1/4.

Multiply this fraction by the total: 1/4 * 240 = 60

Answer 2

Answer: 90 cheeseburgers had tomato

Explanation:

You know that
`(1)/(4)` of the 240 cheeseburgers The Booster Club sold had pickles. Then, the number of cheeseburgers that had pickles was:

`cheeseburgers\ with\ pickles=(240)((1)/(4))=(240)/(4)=60`

The number of remaining burgers is:

`240-60=180\ cheeseburgers`

According to the exercise,
`(1)/(2)` of the remaining cheeseburgers had onions, and the rest had tomato (which means that
`(1)/(2)` had tomato).

Therefore, you can multiply the remaining burgers by
`(1)/(2)` in order to calculate the number of cheeseburgers that had tomato. Then, this is:

`cheeseburgers\ with\ tomato=(180)((1)/(2))=90`