Countless trees

Algebra Level 3

My uncle visits a forest and finds out there are two kinds of birds and three kinds of monkey's and one type snake... He says two types of monkey's stay on top of a tree, alone... The other type share it's tree with other animals.....

One type of bird stays alone and other shares,
And the 50% of the snakes share the trees but not with birds.....

There are 500 mouths in total and 1500 limbs..

Assuming the animals don't share the trees with the same kind...Find the no. Of trees.🌲 🌲 🌲 .. .


The answer is 400.

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1 solution

Vignesh Vikki B
Apr 25, 2014

No. Of mouths =500..
X+y+z =500 X = monkey Y = 🐦 Z= 🐍

4 X +2Y = 1500

Using error and trial method.. X= 300, y= 150, z= 50.. 200. Monkey's live on 200 trees.. 100 share the tree....
75 birds share the tree,
25 snakes share the trees.. Thus total no. Of trees = 400

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