Question

A bicycle shop sells only bicycles and tricycles. Altogther there are 23 seats and 50 wheels. How many bicycles and tricycles are there?

Answer 1

The number of bicycles is 19.

and the number of tricycles is 4.

Explanation:

As we know that the number of seats in bicycles as well as in tricycles is 1.

The number of wheels in bicycles is 2

and the number of wheels in tricycles is 3.

Let the number of bicycles be x.

and the number of tricycles be y.

Thus using the given information we can make equation as,

x + y = 23

and, 2x + 3y = 50

Solving these two equations:

We get, x = 19 and y = 4

Thus the number of bicycles is 19.

and the number of tricycles is 4.