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-A vendor sells hot dogs, bags of potato chips, and soft drinks. A customer buys 3 hot dogs, 3 bags of potato chips, and 3 soft drinks for $11.25. The price of a hot dog is $0.25 more than the price of a
Bag of potato chips. The cost of a soft drink is $1.00 less than the price of two hot dogs. Find the cost
Of each item.

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Let the price of a bag of potato chips be $x$, the price of a hot dog then is $x + 0.25$, and the price of a soft drink is $2(x + 0.25) - 1$. The equation for the total purchase is $3(x + 0.25) + 3x + 3(2(x + 0.25) - 1) = 11.25$. Solving this equation gives $x = 1.00$, so a bag of potato chips costs $1.00, a hot dog costs $1.25, and a soft drink costs $1.50.

Solve. -A Vendor Sells Hot Dogs, Bags of Potato Chips, and and Soft