Question

On Monday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 352 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers

sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Monday?

Answer 1

To answer this question, you could use algebra.

If the number of cheeseburgers was three times the number of hamburgers, we could write this as.

Cheeseburgers= 3x and Hamburgers = x

We can then write an expression for the total number of burgers.

4x = 352

Divide both sides by four.

x = 88

Because hamburgers = x in relation to the cheeseburgers, that would mean the number of hamburgers sold on monday was 88.