SOLUTION: On friday a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 231 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was two times the number of hamburgers sold. How many

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Question 1117858: On friday a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 231 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was two
times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on friday?
Answer by ikleyn(52783) About Me  (Show Source):
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x + 2x = 231


3x = 231  ====>  x = 231%2F3 = 77 hamburgers.


Answer.  77 hamburgers and  77*2 = 154 cheeseburgers.