Question

A vendor sold a combined 234 sodas and hot dogs. The number of sodas was two times the number of hot dogs sold. Find the number of sodas and the number of hot dogs sold.

Answer 1

• 156 hot dogs
• 78 sodas

Explanation:

A group of 2 hot dogs and 1 soda makes a group of 3 items. There were ...

234/3 = 78

groups of items sold.

Since there is 1 soda in the group, that's 78 sodas. The number of hot dogs is 2 times that, or 156 hot dogs.

78 sodas and 156 hot dogs were sold.