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Five hot dogs and four hamburgers cost $12. Four hotdogs and five hamburgers cost 12.75. How much does one hot dog and one hamburger cost?

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If you add the two purchases, you find 9 hotdogs and 9 hamburgers cost 24.75. One hotdog and one hamburger will cost 1/9 of that total, or 2.75.

... One hotdog and one hamburger costs $2.75.

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This is what your question asks. Usually, we want to know the individual costs of the items. If we multiply this total by 5, then we have the cost of 5 hotdogs and 5 hamburgers: 13.75. This $1.75 more than the cost of 5 hotdogs and 4 hamburgers, so the cost of a hamburger must be $1.75

... One hotdog costs $1.00

... One hamburger costs $1.75