SOLUTION: A cycle shop sells bicycles and tricycles. The number of bicycles is 1 less than 4 times the numberm of tricycles. All the bicycles and tricycles together have 174 wheels. How many
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Question 451781: A cycle shop sells bicycles and tricycles. The number of bicycles is 1 less than 4 times the numberm of tricycles. All the bicycles and tricycles together have 174 wheels. How many bicycles are there?
Answer by pedjajov(51) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If we mark number of bicycles as b and number of tricycles as t then we have the following:
b is by 1 less than 4 times t ->
Knowing that bicycle has 2 wheels and tricycle has 3 we have:
total number of wheels is 174 ->
Substitute b in the second equation with the first:
, multiply
, combine
, add 2 to the both sides of equation
, divide both sides by 11
, this is the number of tricycles
, substitute t with 16
, this is the number of bicycles
check:
2b+3t=2*63+3*16=126+48=174, OK
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