Question

There are several chickens and rabbits in a cage (with no other types of animals). there are 72 heads and 200 feet inside the cage. how many chickens and rabbits are in the cage?

Answer 1

There are 41 chickens and 31 rabbits the reason is because of addition,31 plus 41 is 62 if there's 72 heads then there's 72 animals and it also says that there is 200 feet so there's the answer I think

Answer 2

So the way I would do this is by finding 72 heads with them all being chickens. So basically multiply 72 by 2 to get 144 legs. So this means that 56 more legs are needed. And since the difference between legs of chickens and rabbits is two, then we just divide 56 by two to figure out how many rabbits there are.
56/2 = 28
And then to figure out the number of chickens, just do 72 - 28 = 44.
So there are 28 rabbits, and 44 chickens.