SOLUTION: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 391 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Sunday. There were 59 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on

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Question 1146800: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 391 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Sunday. There were 59 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Sunday?
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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h + (h-59) = 391


2h         = 391 + 59 = 450


 h                    = 450/2 = 225.     ANSWER


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