At a baseball game, a vender sold a combined total of 162 sodas and hot dogs. The number of sodas sold was two times the number

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of hot dogs sold. Find the number of sodas and the number of hot dogs sold.

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Galina-37 [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-05T17:36:37+03:00

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Let hot dogs = X

So then soda would be 2x ( two times as much).

Now you have:

X + 2X = 162

Simplify:

3x = 162

Divide both sides by 3:

X =162 / 3

X = 54

2x = 54 *2 = 108

108 sodas and 54 hot dogs were sold.