A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Thursday. There were fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on T…

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Beznez · Answer 1 · 2021-04-22T12:20:35+0000

Answer:

the number of hamburgers sold on Thursday were 325.

Explanation:

The total number of hamburger and cheese burger is missing

i will replace it with any figure, you can replace it wit your given data and you will get the solution.

A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 593 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Thursday

There were 57 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers

How many hamburgers were sold on thursday

Let h be the number of hamburgers and c be the number of cheeseburgers.

Using this information we can set up two equation as:

$h+c=593\\c=h-57$

Now we need to solve these two equations to get the value of number of hamburgers. For that we use substitution method as shown below:

$h+h-57=593\\2h-57=593\\2h=650\\h=325$

Therefore, the number of hamburgers sold on Thursday were 325.