SOLUTION: On Saturday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 324 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How m

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Question 1176354: On Saturday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 324 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Saturday?
Answer by ikleyn(52925)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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You write an equation as you read the problem


    h + 3h = 324


Then you simplify it and find the answer


    4h     = 324

     h     = 324/4 = 81.


ANSWER.  81 hamburgers.

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