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On Sunday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined of 572 hamburger and cheeseburger. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburger sold. How many hamburger were sold on Sunday

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Answer: 143 hamburgers and 429 cheese burgers

Step-by-step explanation:

Call h and c the number of both items.
(h-hamburger and c-cheeseburger)

h + c = 572
c = 3h

Sub the second into the first

h + 3h = 572
4h = 572

Divide both sides by 4
h = 143 hamburgers

Use this back into the second equation
c = 3 • 143 = 429 cheeseburgers

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