Farmer doug has some pigs and chickens. one day he counted 24 legs and 7 heads in the barnyard. how many of each animal did farmer doug count?

Farmer Doug counts 2 chickens and 5 pigs.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x be the number of chickens and y be the number of pigs.

Since a chicken has 2 legs and a pig has 4 legs

According to the question , we have two equations :-

Divide 2 on both sides in equation (2), we get

Now, Subtract equation (1) from (3), we get

Put y=5 in (1) , we get

Hence, Farmer Doug counts 2 chickens and 5 pigs.

1/8 3/16 3/4

step-by-step explanation:

you put them as all the same denominator and multiply