A vendor sells hot dogs and bags of potato chips. A customer buys 3 hot dogs and 3 bags of chips for $10.50. Another customer buys 2 hot dogs and 4 bags of chips for $9.50. Find the cost of a hot dog.
Let Cost of Hotdog be X and Cost of Bag of Chips be Y. According to the question: 3x+3y=10.50 2x+4y=9.50 Solving the equation using elimination method we get. X= $2.25