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Miss Clark’s farm has chickens and pigs. There are a total of 26 animal feet and 8 animal heads on her farm. If 20 feet belong to the pigs and 6 feet belong to the chickens, the ratio of the number of pigs to the number of chickens is

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Answer:

5 : 3

Explanation:

Given in the question that,

total number of animal feet = 26

number of pig's feet = 20

number of chicken's feet = 6

As we know that pig have four legs and chicken have 2 legs so,

number of pigs in the farm = 20/4 = 5

number of chickens in the farm = 6/2 = 3

Questions says that there are 8 heads so we can confirm our calculations as

5 + 3 = 8

The ratio of the number of pigs to the number of chickens is

5 : 3

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