A farmer has both pigs and chickens on his farm. there are 78 feet and 27 heads. how many pigs and how many chickens are there?

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Jillian Mooney

Mathematics

25 October, 23:40

A farmer has both pigs and chickens on his farm. there are 78 feet and 27 heads. how many pigs and how many chickens are there?

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Ariel Potts · Answer 1

let p the number of pigs

and c: number of chickens

p + c = 27 (there is one head for each)

4 p + 2c = 78 (4 feet for pigs and 2 for chickens)

p = 12 c = 15