Question

A zookeeper counted the heads of the animals in a zoo and found it to be
80. When he counted the legs of the animals he found it to be 260. If the
zoo had only pigeons and horses, how many horses were there in the zoo?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Horse = 50 Pigeon = 30

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the number of horses =x

Then the number of pigeons =80−x.

Each pigeon has 2 legs and each horse has 4 legs.

Therefore, total number of legs =4x+2(80−x)=260

⇒4x+160−2x=260

⇒2x=100

⇒x=50.

Hence the no. of Horses is 50 and

the no.of Pigeons is 30.