Question

While at the beach Daniel buys lunch for his family from a food stand he purchased one hotdog for $2.50 and three hamburgers if you spent $13 total right and solve an equation to find H the amount of each hamburgers cost

Answer 1

The cost of each hamburger is $ 3.5

Solution:

Given that, Daniel purchased one hotdog for $2.50 and three hamburgers

He spent $ 13 in total

Let "H" be the cost of each hamburger

From given,

one hotdog for $2.50 + three hamburgers each for "H" = $ 13

Thus we get,

$1 \times 2.50 + 3 \times H = 13\\\\2.50 + 3H = 13\\\\\text{Solve the above equation for H}\\\\3H = 13 - 2.50\\\\3H = 10.5\\\\\text{Divide both sides of equation by 3}\\\\H = 3.5$

Thus cost of each hamburger is $ 3.5