Question

how would you solve this problem? I'm getting stuck on how I would put it together ;

On Tuesday, 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 Tuesday?

Answer 1

2x+x=y

Answer 2

x is the hamburgers and y is your total

Answer 3

cool?

Answer 4

right thanks but I'm not 100% sure on how you go from there, like if you divide the "2x" with the 240, you get 12 and end up with the equation x+y=120

Answer 5

would that be the answer or something?

Answer 6

what are the numbers?

Answer 7

check the problem, the total between both hamburgers and cheeseburgers is 240, but the cheeseburgers were sold twice as much then the hamburgers.

Answer 8

so 2x+x = 3x so 3x=240

Answer 9

how did you get "3x"?

Answer 10

oh oh!

Answer 11

you get it now??

Answer 12

wait no still not sure

Answer 13

tell me how you got those numbers to get 3x=240

Answer 14

so 2x+x=y right??

Answer 15

and y = 240

Answer 16

yeah

Answer 17

so you combine the x's to get 3x

Answer 18

oh!! right !

Answer 19

awesome thanks so much!!

Answer 20

np