SOLUTION: One farmer says to another farmer: �Give me one of your cows, and then I will have twice as many cows as you have.� The second farmer replies: �Why don�t you just give me one of yo

Question 1085277: One farmer says to another farmer: �Give me one of your cows, and then I will have twice as many cows as you have.� The second farmer replies: �Why don�t you just give me one of your cows, and then we will both have the same number of cows?� How many cows does each farmer have?
Answer by emathwiz(15) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the first farmer be x and second be y.
x+1 = 2(y-1)
y+1 = x-1
x = 2y-3
y+1= 2y-3-1
y=5 The second farmer has 5 cows
x+1=8
x=7 The first farmer has 7 cows
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