A problem by kunal gupta
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pending
A man has certain number of chickens and goats. Their head count is 30. If the total number of their legs is 84, what is the ratio between the number of chickens and goats?
5:4
15:7
3:2
5:14
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1 solution
Let the no. of chickens be x and goats be y. According to the question their head count is 30, i.e. x + y = 30.....................[1 ] and the total no. of legs is 84 i.e. 2x + 4y = 84........................[2] solving for x and y we get x = 18 and y = 12 and they are in the ratio 3: 2