Horses
Algebra
Level
1
A certain no. of horses and an equal no. of men are going some where half of owners on their horses back while the remaining ones are walking along leading their horses . If the no. of legs walking in the ground is 70 . Then , how many horses are there ?
The answer is 14.
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Let x be the number of horses. Then the legs of horses will be 4 x and the legs of men is 2 x . Since only half of the men are walking, the total number of legs walking is x + 4 x = 7 0 . Compute for x you will get x = 1 4 the number of horses and also the number of men.