Question

Mr. Lee is a hotdog and drink vendor at a baseball game. Hot dogs are 3.50 and drinks are 1.50. If Mr. Lee sold enough to make 450 dollars on Monday. He remembers that on Monday he sold three times as many drinks as he did hot dogs. How many hot dogs and how many drinks did Mr. Lee sell on Monday?

Answer 1

33 hotdogs and 225 drinks on Monday

Explanation:

We would use the ratio of 1:3 hotdogs to drinks

Split the ratio in 450 and we get 112.5:337.5

$112.5 would be the earnings of hotdogs

$337.5 would be the earnings of the drinks

Now we divide each individually by its cost

$112.5/3.5

= 32 1/7,

$337.5/1.5

= 225

We will round the hotdogs to 33 as the word problem says "sold enough to make."