SOLUTION: There is an animal farm where chickens and cows live. All together, there are 53 heads and 174 legs. How many chickens and how many cows are there on the farm? P.s you can just

Question 825986: There is an animal farm where chickens and cows live. All together, there are 53 heads and 174 legs. How many chickens and how many cows are there on the farm?
P.s you can just give me atleast 2 equations, that would really help even if you dont put solutions :) I would be using elimination method.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of chickens
Let = the number of cows
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Each animal has 1 head, so
(1)
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Cows have 4 legs and chickens have 2, so
(2)

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