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A farmhouse shelters 14 animals. Some are
pigs, and some are chickens. Altogether there
are 44 legs between the animals. Let p
represent the number of pigs and c represent
the number of chickens.

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Answer:

  • 8 pigs
  • 6 chickens

Step-by-step explanation:

Maybe you want to know the number of each kind of animal.

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We can write two equations in the two unknowns.

  p + c = 14 . . . . . . number of animals

  4p +2c = 44 . . .  number of legs

Dividing the second equation by 2, it becomes ...

  2p +c = 22

Then subtracting the first equation gives ...

  (2p +c) -(p +c) = (22) -(14)

  p = 8

  8 +c = 14

  c = 6

The farmhouse shelters 8 pigs and 6 chickens.