SOLUTION: The new artic exhibit at the zoo displays polar bears and penguins altogether there are 47 head and 116 feet how many polar bears and how many penguins are part of the new exhibit

Question 1065931: The new artic exhibit at the zoo displays polar bears and penguins altogether there are 47 head and 116 feet how many polar bears and how many penguins are part of the new exhibit
Answer by ikleyn(52884) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let assume for a moment that all those animals have 2 legs each.
Then the number of legs would be 47*2 = 94.

There is a shortage of 116-96 = 22 legs.

It is clear that the shortage is due to the fact we counted only 2 legs for bears instead of counting 4.

Therefore, the number of bears is  =  = 11.

Answer.  11 bears and 47 - 11 = 36 penguins.

See the lesson
- Problem on animals at a farm
in this site.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Miscellaneous word problems".

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