A farmer has chickens and pigs. His son counted 70 heads and 200 legs. How much chickens and pigs does have?
Can you also show the equation done
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4 Responses
tinman97prn
09 Feb 2010
Pwned23
09 Feb 2010
Well lets see every chicken has one head and two legs right? and every pig has one head and 4 legs right? so if you put 70 dims on a table and 200 pennies on a table start to take out 1 dimes and 2 pennies and when you run out of pennies youll have your answer
Queen Elizabeth&
09 Feb 2010
Not sure if this is correct but.
If you have 40 chickens = 80 legs and
if you have 30 pigs = 120 legs.
So that would be 70 heads (40 + 30 ) and 200 legs (80 + 120)
You are on your own with the equation I am afraid.
shmitty42990
09 Feb 2010
C + P = 70
2C + 4P = 200
-2C – 2P = -140
2C + 4P = 200
2P = 60
Pigs = 30
C + 30 = 70
Chickens = 40
200 = 2(70-x) + 4x
200 = 140-2x+4x
60 = 2x
x = 30
so 30 pigs and 40 chickens