SOLUTION: 36 vehicles are parked in a garden. Some of them were scooters and taxies. The total number of wheels of these vehicles were 100.Find out how many were taxies and scooters.

Question 376181: 36 vehicles are parked in a garden. Some of them were scooters and taxies. The total number of wheels of these vehicles were 100.Find out how many were taxies and scooters.
Answer by Jk22(389) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
suppose there were s scooters (2wheels), then there were 36-s taxis(4wheels)

in this configuration, the number of wheels is : 2s+4*(36-s)=72-2s

this should equals 100 : 144-2s=100, 2s=44, s=22 scooters, and 14 taxis.
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