Question

A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 756 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Thursday. There were 56 more cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Thursday?

Answer 1

350 hamburgers were sold on Thursday.

Explanation:

Let h be hamburgers and c be cheeseburgers.

We can write a system of equations for this scenario:

A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 756 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Thursday.

h + c = 756

There were 56 more cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers.

c = h + 56

Now, we can plug the values in and solve for h.

c = 756

c = 756 - h

c = h + 56

(756 - h) = h + 56

756 = 2h + 56

700 = 2h

350 hamburgers were sold on Thursday.