Question

At a particular restaurant, each mini hotdog has 100 calories and each slider has 200 calories. A combination meal with mini hotdogs and sliders is shown to have 1200 total calories and 4 times as many mini hotdogs as there are sliders. Graphically solve a system of equations in order to determine the number of mini hotdogs in the combination meal, x,x, and the number of sliders in the combination meal, yy.

Answer 1

The number of sliders is 2 and the number of hot dogs is 8.

Explanation:

Since at a particular restaurant, each mini hotdog has 100 calories and each slider has 200 calories, and a combination meal with mini hotdogs and sliders is shown to have 1200 total calories and 4 times as many mini hotdogs as there are sliders, in order to determine the number of mini hotdogs in the combination meal, X, and the number of sliders in the combination meal, Y, the following calculation must be performed:

2X + Y = 1200

800 + 400 = 1200

800/100 = 8

400/200 = 2

Thus, the number of sliders is 2 and the number of hot dogs is 8.