Question

On Monday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 336 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Monday

Answer 1

84

Explanation:

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

This means that:

• h+c=336
• c=3h

Substituting c=3h into the first equation, it follows that 4h=336, and thus h=84.