SOLUTION: There is a collection of snakes and iguanas. The reptiles have a total of 50 eyes and 56 feet. How many reptiles of each type do you have?

Question 151309: There is a collection of snakes and iguanas. The reptiles have a total of 50 eyes and 56 feet. How many reptiles of each type do you have?
Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Snakes have no feet so the 56 feet must belong to the colection of iguanas, and, since each iguana has 4 feet, there are 56/4 = 14 iguanas.
Each iguana has two eyes, so the 14 iguanas have 28 of the 50 eyes, leaving 22 eyes for the snakes, and each snake has two eyes, so there must be 22/2 = 11 snakes.
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