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Julli [10]
3 years ago
3

Old McDonald raises chickens and sheep in his farm. His livestock has a total of 55 heads and 142 legs among them (not counting

the farmer!). How many chickens and how many sheep does he have?
Mathematics
1 answer:
tino4ka555 [31]3 years ago
5 0

Let the number of sheep be denoted by the letter "S".

Let the number of chicken be denoted by the letter "C".

From the given information about the number of heads (headcount) it is clear that:

S+C=55.................(Equation 1)

We know that 1 Sheep has 4 legs and 1 chicken has 2 legs. Therefore, "S" sheep will have 4S legs and "C" chickens will have 2C legs.

Therefore, from the information on legs we have:

4S+2C=142

Dividing both sides by 2 we get:

2S+C=71.............(Equation 2)

Now, if we subtract (Equation 1) from (Equation 2) we will get:

(2S+C)-(S+C)=71-55

or, S=16

Plugging in this in (Equation 1) we get:

16+C=55

or C=39

Thus the number of sheep is 16 and the number of chicken is 39.


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