SOLUTION: At a baseball game, a vender sold a combined total of 155 sodas and hot dogs. The number of hot dogs sold was 39 less than the number of sodas sold. Find the number of sodas sold a
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Question 1155114: At a baseball game, a vender sold a combined total of 155 sodas and hot dogs. The number of hot dogs sold was 39 less than the number of sodas sold. Find the number of sodas sold and the number of hot dogs sold.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let x be the number of sodas sold, y be the number of hot dogs sold
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y = x-39
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x +x-39 = 155
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2x = 194
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x = 97
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y = 97 -39 = 58
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97 sodas were sold and 58 hot dogs were sold
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