At a football game, a vender sold a combined total of 152 sodas and hot dogs. The number of sodas sold was three times the number of hot dogs sold. Find the number of sodas and the number of hot dogs sold.

Step-by-step explanation:

Sometimes problems of this nature are easily worked by considering groups of items. Here, it is convenient to consider a group as 1 hot dog and 3 sodas, so the number of sodas in the group is 3 times the number of hotdogs in the group.

Each group is 4 items, so 152/4 = 38 groups were sold.

In the 38 groups, there were 38 hot dogs and 3×38 = 114 sodas.

114 sodas and 38 hot dogs were sold.