Question 626226: THere are 100 chicken and rabbits on a farm. For a total of 260 legs. How many chickens are there in the farm? Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let c be the number of chickens and r be the number of rabbits.
You are told
You are also told the total number of legs is 260. So since each chicken has 2 legs and each rabbit has 4
Use those two equations to solve for c from equation 1. substitute in the value for r in the previous equation now simplfoy and solve for c
so you have 70 chickens and 30 rabbits.
Check your answer, does 2*70 + 4*30 = 260?
(