Why do you say "for some reason"? Didn't you solve the problem?
Did you check your answer?
500-70+10 = 440 = 500 * 0.85 ok
300-30+75 = 375 = 345 * 1.15 ok
Here's how I did it. I imagine you did it in much the same way.
to start,
500 ducks
300 chickens
then gave away d ducks and c chickens,
At that point, he had
500-d ducks
300-c chickens
After buying more birds, he had
500-d+10 = 510-d ducks
300-c+75 = 375-c chickens
510-d = 500*.88 = 440
375-c = 300*1.15 = 345
d = 510-440 = 70
c = 375-345 = 30
Specifying that d+c = 100 was redundant.
A farmer had 500 ducks and 300 chickens. He gave his sister 100 chickens and ducks. Later, the farmer bought 10 more ducks and 75 more chickens. As a result, the number of ducks decreased by 12% and the number of chickens increased by 15%.
a) How many ducks did the farmer give away?
b) How many chickens did he give away?
I got 70 ducks and 30 chickens for some reason.
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a farmer had 15 animals in his farmyard somewhere chicken and some were cows.there were 52 legs in all . how many cows were in the farmyard?
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