I need help!! Can some one explain how to do it? My teacher explanation was hard to understand. Mr. Majors ordered six hot dogs
and a bucket of popcorn at the concession stand. If the popcorn was $3.20, and the total was $18.20, what was the price of one hot dog?
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Let us try and solve it analytically. We have that the side=x+3 together with the short side=s and the diagonal=x+4 satisfy the Pythagorean Theorem. Then we have that 
. This yields 
which yields s^2=2x+7, hence a) is the correct answer.
which yields s^2=2x+7, hence a) is the correct answer.