Question

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On Tuesday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 588 hamburgers and cheeseburgers The number of cheeseburgers said was three troes the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Tuesday?

Answer 1

The answer is 147 hamburgers.

Explanation:

We are looking for the number of hamburgers sold.

number of hamburgers sold =x

We are given that the number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold.

number of cheeseburgers sold =3x

The total number of hamburgers and cheeseburgers sold was 588. We get the following.

number of cheeseburgers sold + number of hamburgers sold = 588

3x + x = 588

4x = 588

588/4 = 147

x = 147

So, the number of hamburgers sold was 147.