SOLUTION: Three chickens were weighed in pairs; the first pair weighed in at 10.6 kg, the second pair weighed 8.5 kg, and the third pair weighed 6.1 kg. How much would the scale read if all
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Question 160765: Three chickens were weighed in pairs; the first pair weighed in at 10.6 kg, the second pair weighed 8.5 kg, and the third pair weighed 6.1 kg. How much would the scale read if all three checkes were weighed at the same time? How many kilograms does each chicken weigh? Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let's call each chicken's weight, A, B, and C.
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From 1,
From 3,
Substitute those two values into eq. 2 and solve for A,
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Now solve for B and C.
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If all the chickens were weighed together,
they would weigh 13.6 kg.
