Question

At a hockey game, a vender sold a combined total of 220 sodas and hot dogs. The number of sodas sold was three times the number of hot dogs sold. Find the number of sodas and the number of hot dogs sold.

Answer 1

The number of sodas sold was three times the number of hot dogs sold, so if we set up an equation, it would be 3x + x = 220, where x is the number of hot dogs sold. To solve this equation, we can subtract x from both sides, leaving us with 2x = 220. Then, we can divide both sides by 2, leaving us with x = 110. This means that 110 hot dogs were sold and 3x = 330 sodas were sold.