Homework Help: Math

Posted by Jay on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 10:43pm.

A farmer has some chickens and some goats. Altogher there are 43 heads and 108 legs. How many chickens does the farmer have? How many goats does the farmer have?

Math - helper, Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 11:07pm
43 heads = 43 animals ( I hope!!)
C = number of chickens
G = number of goats

C + G = 43
2C + 4G = 108

solve simultaneously to find C and G

if you are right,
C = 32
G = 11
Math - bill, Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 2:22pm
how did u wrk dat ou?

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