Problema Solution
On Tuesday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was three times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Tuesday?
Answer provided by our tutors
"a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of hamburgers and cheeseburgers"
the total is missing from the above sentence
let 'h' represent the number of hamburgers, then '3h' represents the number of cheeseburgers
the equation to solve is:
T = h + 3h
h = T/4
once you know the total number of hamburgers and cheeseburgers sold, just divide it by '4' to get the number of hamburgers sold and the rest were cheeseburgers