In the barn
In a barn there are only horses and people. If there are 12 heads and 34 legs how many horses and how many people are there?
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From this we can create 2 equations:
ReplyDelete2x + 4y = 34
x + y = 12
Now using systems of equations, we can find out that y = 5 meaning there are 5 horses and 7 people