Question

a carpenter has to make 20 items of furniture some of them as tools with 3 legs and the remaining are chairs with four legs if he has 72 legs of furniture and he would like to use of all of them the number of stools and chairs he can make is​

Answer 1

Answer:

8 tools and 12 chairs

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number of tools be x

So number of chairs is = 20 - x

now the number of legs

3x + (20 - x) 4 = 72

3x + 80 - 4x = 72

-x = 72-80

x = 80-72

x = 8

Therefore no. of tools = 8 and no.of chairs = (20 - 8) = 12

Answer 2

Same as above :/

I did it wrong.