SOLUTION: Again, need help before midnight. Thankyou for all your help! Cherie went to a Virginia Tech football game and spent $20.50 on a hotdog, drink, and some nachos. The drink wa

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Question 1169085: Again, need help before midnight. Thankyou for all your help!
Cherie went to a Virginia Tech football game and spent $20.50 on a hotdog, drink, and some nachos. The drink was twice as much as the hotdog and the nachos was $2.50 more than three times the hotdog. How much did each item cost?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
h hotdog price
d drink price
n nachos price
(nachos was $2.50 more than three times the hotdog.)
Going along the description literally you have ;
If you are careful, this can be turned into a single equation in just one unknown variable.


Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Again, need help before midnight. Thankyou for all your help!
Cherie went to a Virginia Tech football game and spent $20.50 on a hotdog, drink, and some nachos. The drink was twice as much as the hotdog and the nachos was $2.50 more than three times the hotdog. How much did each item cost?
Let cost of the hotdog be H

Then cost of drink = 2H, and cost of nachos = 3H + 2.50

With total cost being $20.50, we get: H + 2H + 3H + 2.5 = 20.5

6H = 18

Cost of the hotdog, or 

Do you now think you can find the cost of the drink and the nachos?



FYI: The other person's answers are WRONG!! BEWARE!!! 

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