SOLUTION: A party was organised for thirty people at which they could either have a hamburger or
a pizza. If there were five times as many hamburgers as pizzas, calculate the number of
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Question 1156017: A party was organised for thirty people at which they could either have a hamburger or
a pizza. If there were five times as many hamburgers as pizzas, calculate the number of
each.
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let the number of hamburgers be and the number of pizzas
if a party was organised for people at which they could either have a hamburger or a pizza, we have
.........eq.1
if there were times as many hamburgers as pizzas, we have
......eq.2
substitute in eq.1
.........solve for
go to eq.2
......eq.2, substitute
answer: there was hamburgers and pizzas
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