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a group of students went hiking in a wildlife sanctuary. During the hike a total of 180 ticks and mosquitoes were slapped. If these pests has a total of 1240 legs, how many mosquitoes and how many ticks were slapped during the hike?( hint: ticks have 8 legs and mmosquitoes have 6 legs)
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document.write( "Mosquitos have 3 pairs of legs and ticks have one extra pairs of legs.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Do it with basic math:\r\n" );
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document.write( "1240 legs is 620 pairs of legs.  All 180 critters have 3 pairs of legs, which\r\n" );
document.write( "accounts for 180×3 or 540 pairs.  The remaining 620-540 or 80 pairs of legs\r\n" );
document.write( "belong to the ticks, so there were 80 ticks and therefore 180-80 or 100\r\n" );
document.write( "mosquitoes. \r\n" );
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document.write( "or do it with algebra:\r\n" );
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document.write( " m +  t = 180\r\n" );
document.write( "6m + 8t = 1240\r\n" );
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document.write( "Solve that and get m = 100, t = 80\r\n" );
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