A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 825 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Sunday. There were 75 more cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Sunday?

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Let's call our hamburgers h and the cheeseburgers c. Now we can set up a system of equations.

h+c=825

c=h+75

We see that c is the same as h+75, so we can switch the c in the first equation with h+75 to solve for h.

h+h+75=825

We combine like terms.

2h+75=825

Subtract 75 from both sides.

2h=750

Divide both sides by 2.

h=375

There were 75 more cheeseburgers, so we add that to the hamburgers to find the number of cheeseburgers.

375+75=450

Therefore, there were 375 hamburgers and 450 cheeseburgers.

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