Solve this animal question!

Algebra Level 1

HI! I'm a cat and I want to tell story problems.Some cat feeders and cats are in a field. There are 300 heads and 1060 feet. How many animals are there???

229 235 230 231

Steven Steven by Steven Steven , 43, Indonesia

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Dhanashree J
May 7, 2014

let number of cat feeders be x and number of cats be y. Since total heads are 300, we have, x+y=300 .....(1) There are total 1060 feet. Hence, no of feet of cat feeders- 2x and no of feet of cats-4y. hence we have, 2x+4y=1060 .....(2) on solving equations (1) and (2), we get y=230,which is no of cats.

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x=300-y so, 2(300-y)+4y=1060 600-2y+4y=1060 2y=1060-600 2y=460 y=230

Dhira Tengara - 7 years, 1 month ago

good answer.. :)

Steven Steven - 7 years, 1 month ago

Can all of you try to use LATEX \text{LATEX} ? It makes the solutions more readable. Here is the link .

Ameya Salankar - 7 years, 1 month ago

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