SOLUTION: A farmer buys 100 animals for 100 dollars but lost his receipt. Cows are $5 each, pigs are $1 each and chicks are $ 0.1 each. How many of each did he buy?

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Question 1056010: A farmer buys 100 animals for 100 dollars but lost his receipt. Cows are $5 each, pigs are $1 each and chicks are $ 0.1 each. How many of each did he buy?
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A farmer buys 100 animals for 100 dollars but lost his receipt. Cows are $5 each, pigs are $1 each and chicks are $ 0.1 each. How many of each did he buy?
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No algebraic solution, just trial and error.
Nothing to learn from it.