Given:
Vender sold a combined total of 249 sodas and hot dogs.
The number of sodas sold was 55 more than the number of hot dogs sold.
Let x and y be the number of sodas and hot dogs sold.
[tex]x+y=249\ldots\text{ (1)}[/tex][tex]x=y+55\ldots\text{ (2)}[/tex]Substitute equation (2) in (1)
[tex]y+55+y=249[/tex][tex]2y=249-55[/tex][tex]2y=194[/tex][tex]y=97[/tex][tex]x=97+55[/tex][tex]x=152[/tex]Number of sodas sold is 152.
Number of hot dogs sold is 97.
