Question

A concession stand at the high school football stadium sells hotdogs and hamburgers to raise money for the high school athletes program each hotdog so earns the program $.50 and each hamburger so earned $.75 this week the concession stand so a combination of

230 hotdogs and hamburgers in earned $138.50 for the athletes program if X represents the numbers of hot dog so then why represents the number of hamburger showed which system of equations represents the situation

Answer 1

`0.50x+0.75y=138.50\\x+y=230`

Explanation:

In the equations, x represents the number of hamburgers and y the number of hotdogs.