document.write( "Question 778491: At a baseball game, a vender sold a combined total of 230 sodas and hot dogs. The number of hot dogs sold was 38 less than the number of sodas sold. Find the number of sodas sold and the number of hot dogs sold.\r
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x= Number of hamburgers
\n" ); document.write( "y= Number of sodas
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\n" ); document.write( "1 x + 1 y = 230 .............1
\n" ); document.write( "Total value
\n" ); document.write( "1 x -1 y = 38 .............2
\n" ); document.write( "Eliminate y
\n" ); document.write( "Add the two equations
\n" ); document.write( "2 x = 268
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\n" ); document.write( "x = 134
\n" ); document.write( "plug value of x in (1)
\n" ); document.write( "1 x + 1 y = 230
\n" ); document.write( "134 + y = 230
\n" ); document.write( " y = 230 -134
\n" ); document.write( " y = 96
\n" ); document.write( " y = 96
\n" ); document.write( "x= 134 Number of hamburgers
\n" ); document.write( "y= 96 Number of sodas
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