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A local hamburger shop sold 639 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Tuesday. They sold 61 fewer cheeseburgers than hamburgers. How many hamburgers did
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A local hamburger shop sold 639 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Tuesday. They sold 61 fewer cheeseburgers than hamburgers. How many hamburgers did
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A local hamburger shop sold 639 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Tuesday. They sold 61 fewer cheeseburgers than hamburgers. How many hamburgers did they sell?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! lets say hamburgers sold is H and cheeseburgers sold is C.
Then we are given:
H+C=639
H-61=C
We need to find H.
One way to solve is to plug in C from the bottom equation into the top one:
H+H-61=639
So now we can solve for H:
2H-61=639
2H=639+61
H=(639+61)/2
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