Homework Help: calculus

Posted by xxx on Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 9:40am.

1. One day, a person went to horse racing area, Instead of counting the number of human and horses, he instead counted 74 heads and 196 legs. Yet he knew the number of humans and horses there. How did he do it, and how many humans and horses are there?

im stuck.. please help

calculus - bobpursley, Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 10:10am
Horses+Humans=74
4Horses+2humans=<196
calculus - Marshmallow, Friday, January 6, 2012 at 6:20pm
50x2 = 100 feet
24x4 = 96 feet
answer is 74 heads & 196 feet

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