A riddle question number 8

Logic Level 1

One day, a person went to a horse racing area. Instead of counting the number of humans and horses, he counted 74 heads and 196 legs. How many humans and horses were there?

37 humans and 98 horses 24 horses and 50 humans 31 horses and 74 humans 24 humans and 50 horses

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Oliver Papillo
Oct 20, 2017

Let the number of horses be $e$ and the number of people be $p$ .

We have $e + p = 74$ (Equation $1$ )

and $4e + 2p = 196$ (Equation $2$ )

Solving simultaneously: $(2) - 2*(1)$ gives

$2e = 48$

$e=24$

$24 + p = 74$

$p = 50$

A riddle question number 8

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