SOLUTION: A farm has a certain number of chickens and sheep. It is known that the number of chicken legs is 8 times as the number of sheep legs. If there are N sheep what is the expression o

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Question 1099515: A farm has a certain number of chickens and sheep. It is known that the number of chicken legs is 8 times as the number of sheep legs. If there are N sheep what is the expression of the total number of chickens?
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source):
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N sheep
4N sheep legs
8*4N chicken legs
32N chicken legs

chickens

Answer by ikleyn(52832) (Show Source):
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If C is the number of chicken, then 2C is the number of their legs. If N is the number of sheep, then 4N is the number of their legs. The problem says that 2C = 8(4N). Then C = = 16N. Answer. The number of chicken C = 16N, or 16 times the number of sheep.