SOLUTION: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 428 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Sunday. There were 72 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on
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Question 1073221: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 428 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Sunday. There were 72 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Sunday?
Answer by jorel1380(3719) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let n be the amount of cheeseburgers. Then hamburgers would be n+72. So:
n+n+72=428
2n=356
n=178
n+72=250
There were 250 hamburgers and 178 cheeseburgers sold. ☺☺☺☺
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