SOLUTION: At a football game, a vender sold a combined total of 117 sodas and hot dogs. The number of hot dogs sold was 59 less than the number of sodas sold. Find the number of sodas sold a

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Question 1055959: At a football game, a vender sold a combined total of 117 sodas and hot dogs. The number of hot dogs sold was 59 less than the number of sodas sold. Find the number of sodas sold and the number of hot dogs sold.
all I got so far is x+y=117 and x=y-59
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At a football game, a vender sold a combined total of 117 sodas and hot dogs. The number of hot dogs sold was 59 less
than the number of sodas sold. Find the number of sodas sold and the number of hot dogs sold.
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s + h = 117,   ("s" for sodas, "h" for hot-dogs)
s - h =  59.

Add the two equations. You will get

2s = 117 + 59,

2s = 176  --->  s = 176%2F2 = 88.

Can you complete the solution from this point?



Comment from student: 88-59=29.


My responce: Good !
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