SOLUTION: A farmer keeps sheep and chickens. In the farmyard there are 68 animals with a total of 270 legs. Assuming every chicken has exactly two legs and each sheep has exactly four legs,

Question 485893: A farmer keeps sheep and chickens. In the farmyard there are 68 animals with a total of 270 legs. Assuming every chicken has exactly two legs and each sheep has exactly four legs, how many chickens and how many sheep are there in the farmyard?
Answer by Tatiana_Stebko(1539) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x chickens
Let y sheep

divide the second equation by 2

subtract the first equation from the second
sheep
Substitute into the first equation

chicken
A farmer has 1 chicken and 67 sheep
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