Question

On Sunday a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 231 hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was two times the amount of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Sunday?

Answer 1

Answer: 77 hamburgers

Explanation:

You can write an equation for this problem

x= hamburgers

2x= cheeseburgers

x+2x=231

3x=231

x=77