SOLUTION: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 586 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Monday. There were 64 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers we

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Question 1099880: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of
586
hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Monday. There were
64
fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Monday?

hamburgers





Answer by jorel1380(3719) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let h be hamburgers and h-64 be cheeseburgers. Then:
h+h-64=586
2h=650
h=325
h-64=261
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