SOLUTION: A carpenter only builds stools and tables. Each stool has three legs and each table has four legs. One day he used exactly 70 legs. What could he have built? How many different pos

Question 1057003: A carpenter only builds stools and tables. Each stool has three legs and each table has four legs. One day he used exactly 70 legs. What could he have built? How many different possibilities are there? How do you know you have found all the possibilities?

Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Table of possible solutions

n.   # tables	 # stools
1	1	    22
2	4	    18
3	7	    14
4      10	    10
5      13	     6
6      16	     2


In all, there are 6 solutions.

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