SOLUTION: their 30 legs and 13 heads of goats and chicken,so how may goats and chicken are their?

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Question 657934: their 30 legs and 13 heads of goats and chicken,so how may goats and chicken are their?
Answer by lostin(9) About Me  (Show Source):
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Chicken will have 2 legs and Goat will have 4.
So linear equations for the question is
Let X Chicken and Y Goat
So
X+Y = 13
2X+4Y = 30
Solving both the equation gives X = 11 and Y = 2
Hence Chicken Count = 11 and Goat count is 2.