SOLUTION: In a farm there are chickens and cows. All in all there are 36 legs. How many chickens and cows are there? Please solve it through linear equation.
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Question 884222: In a farm there are chickens and cows. All in all there are 36 legs. How many chickens and cows are there? Please solve it through linear equation.
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
so graph that
So there are many answers. Anywhere on the line between y=18 and x = 9 that are integers values for x and y work
x = 0, y = 18
x = 1, y = 16
x = 2, y = 14 etc etc
all the way to x=9, y = 0
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