SOLUTION: On Saturday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 536 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How m

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Question 346734: On Saturday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 536 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Saturday?
Answer by nyc_function(2741) About Me  (Show Source):
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h= # of hamburgers sold. c= # of cheeseburgers sold.

h= h. c=3h

3h+h=536

4h=536

h= 134

So, 134 hamburgers were sold on Saturday.