Question

A restaurant manager states the number of customers that enter the restaurant is equal to 3 times the number of people that buy a hotdog from the hotdog cart plus 15. The manager also states that the number of customers that enter their restaurant is equal to 2 times the number of people that buy a hotdog from the hotdog cart plus 60. What number of people buying a hotdog from the hotdog cart across the street makes the equation 3x+15 = 2x+60 true?

Answer 1

The answer to this question will be 45 because you minus 15 on both sides and get 45 for 60 minus 15 and then will minus 2x on both sides and the Equation will now be x=45 and you plug it in to check