Tanner bought x hot dogs and y hamburgers at a baseball game. He spent a total of $10. The equation below describes the relationship between the number of hot dogs and the number of hamburgers purchased.

3x + 4y = 10

The ordered pair (2,1) is a solution of the equation. What does the solution (2,1) represent?

- Hamburgers cost twice as much as hot dogs.

- Tanner bought 2 hot dogs and 1 hamburger.

- Hot dogs cost $2 and hamburgers cost $1.

- Tanner spent $2 on hot dogs and $1 on hamburgers.

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Skylar Frey

Mathematics

1 January, 07:54

Tanner bought x hot dogs and y hamburgers at a baseball game. He spent a total of $10. The equation below describes the relationship between the number of hot dogs and the number of hamburgers purchased.

3x + 4y = 10

The ordered pair (2,1) is a solution of the equation. What does the solution (2,1) represent?

- Hamburgers cost twice as much as hot dogs.

- Tanner bought 2 hot dogs and 1 hamburger.

- Hot dogs cost $2 and hamburgers cost $1.

- Tanner spent $2 on hot dogs and $1 on hamburgers.

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Nick Bowman · Answer 1

3x + 4y = 10 ... where x is the number of hotdogs and y is the number of hamburgers ...

so with the solution (2,1) ... this means 2 hot dogs were sold and 4 hamburgers were sold ... Tanner bought 2 hot dogs and 1 hamburger