Question

At a baseball game, a vender sold a combined total of 132 sodas and hot dogs. The number of sodas sold was three times the number of hot dogs sold. Find the number of sodas and the number of hot dogs sold.

Answer 1

Let x be the number of hot dogs sold.

Then the number of sodas sold is 3x.

The total number of sodas and hot dogs sold is 132, so we can write:

x + 3x = 132

4x = 132

x = 33

Therefore, the number of hot dogs sold is 33, and the number of sodas sold is 3x = 3(33) = 99.

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