at a hockey game a vender sold a combined total of 184 sodas and hotdogs. the number of sodas sold was 40 more than the number of hotdogs sold.

Question

find the number of sodas and hotdogs sold

Answer 1

let s = the number of sodas sold and h = the number of hotdogs sold, we have s + h = 184 (1)

and s = h + 40 (2)  plugging the value of s from (2) to (1) we get h+40+h=184 -->> 2h=184-40 --->>>

2h=144 and h=144/2 =72 so h = 72 so S=184-h (1) so s=184-72=112

so 72 hotdogs and 112 sodas were sold