Question

In Aunt Peggy’s attics there are spiders and ants, the total of 160 legs. And, there is one more ant than spider! How many spiders and how many ants? (A spider has 8 legs and an ant only 6.)

Answer 1

let X represent the number of spider.

8x+6*(x+1)=160

8x+6x+6=160

14x=154

x=11

x+1=11+1=12

So the number of ants is 12, the number of spiders is 11.

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