Question

A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 593 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Thursday. There were 57 fewer cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on thursday

Answer 1

325 hamburgers were sold on Thursday.

Explanation:

Let h be the number of hamburgers and c be the number of cheeseburgers.

Using this information we can set up two equation as:

`h+c=593\\c=h-57`

Now we need to solve these two equations to get the value of number of hamburgers. For that we use substitution method as shown below:

`h+h-57=593\\2h-57=593\\2h=650\\h=325`

Therefore, the number of hamburgers sold on Thursday were 325.