SOLUTION: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 428 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Sunday. There were 72 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on

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Question 1073221: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 428 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Sunday. There were 72 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Sunday?
Answer by jorel1380(3719) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let n be the amount of cheeseburgers. Then hamburgers would be n+72. So:
n+n+72=428
2n=356
n=178
n+72=250
There were 250 hamburgers and 178 cheeseburgers sold. ☺☺☺☺