On a farm there are chickens and cows. Together they have #200# legs and #75# heads. How many cows and chickens are there on the farm? Use a system of equations.
1 Answer
Number of Cows=25
Number of chicken =50
Explanation:
Let the number of cows be
both chicken and cows have 1 head while cows have 4 legs and chicken have 2
Number of Heads = Number of Cows + Number of Chicken
Number of legs = Number of Cows
substitute in (2)