Question

at a basketball game, a vendor sold a combined total of 218 sodas and hotdogs. The number of hotdogs sold was 50 less than the number of soda sold. Find the number of soda sold and the number of hotdogs sold

Answer 1

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Answer:

• 134 soda
• 84 hot dogs

Step-by-step explanation:

Let s represent the number of sodas sold. Then the number of hot dogs sold is (s-50) and the total is ...

  s +(s -50) = 218

  2s = 268 . . . . . . . . . add 50

  s = 134 . . . . . . . divide by 2

134 sodas were sold; 84 hot dogs were sold.