Question

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

Answer 1

Is this the entire question ? The reason I ask is because it is not giving the combined total of hamburgers and cheeseburgers sold for Friday.

Answer 2

@RoseDryer ....this can't be solved , can it ?

Answer 3

@phi .....this can't be solved, can it ?

Answer 4

Well they're missing the total number of hamburgers sold. I they had that I believe it could be solved.
Because the equations would be
c+h=Total number of burgers sold on Friday(whatever that number may be)
And the you have 2h=c
Using substitution and the total number of burgers sold you could solve this but not without the total number of burgers sold on Friday.

Answer 5

that is what I thought

Answer 6

you can write an equation, but you don't have enough information to find numerical values.

example: let x= # of hamburgers, y=# of cheeseburgers, N total of both
the statement sold a combined total of hamburgers and cheeseburgers
means
x+y= N

number of cheeseburgers sold was two times the number of hamburgers sold.
means
y= 2x

now you need to know N (or x or y) to solve for numbers.

Answer 7

thanks so much ....you both are great. I just thought i was getting stupid..lol

Answer 8

Hahaa. Well I'm glad you noticed it!

Answer 9

the asker is not online....so I guess that is all we can do