RE: [Math4u] maths problem

> I have recently joined this group and i have a little bit english
> problems as well, bus any way now i want to write a question that
> involves math, and i have been asked this question when i wanted to do
> AS math in a college:
>
> In a big room we have a number of cows and chickens, a person get
> inside the room and count all the cows and chickens together and the
> total number of them is 30,
> then he counts all the legs in the floor of that room, and he notice
> that there are 98 legs together, now the question is how many cows and
> chicken are there in the room;

My result is: 19 cows, 11 chickens.

And I think in two ways of figure out this, a direct mathematical one and an other very simple.

Regards.
Mario

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