Question

On Saturday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 396 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was two times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Saturday?

Answer 1

Let x be the number of hamburgers sold, then the number of cheeseburgers sold can be represented as 2x. The total number of hamburgers and cheeseburgers sold is the sum of these two quantities, so we can write an equation:

x + 2x = 396

To solve for x, we can combine like terms on the left side of the equation:

3x = 396

Then we can divide both sides by 3 to get:

x = 132

So, the number of hamburgers sold on Saturday is 132.