a farm that has pigs and chickens totaling 32 animals if there are 4 more pigs than chickens, how many of each animal are there

Question

below the questions it gives me two equations forms like

___+___=___ what do i do with those

Answer 1

The number of pigs plus the number of chickens is 32. (p+c=32)

Let’s us p to represent pigs and c to represent chickens. Now let’s assign a value to the variables p and c.

p=c+4 (because there are 4 more pigs than chickens).

c=c

Insert these values into the initial equation at the top of this answer and solve for c.

c+4+c=32

2c+4=32

-4 -4

2c=28

/2 /2

c=14

Now that we know there are 14 chickens, let’s find out how many pigs.

p=32-14

p=18

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