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Tony owns a special pet store that sells only snakes and elephants.Currently he has a total of 11 snakes and elephants in stock. The animals that he has in stock have a total of 12 legs.How many of his animals are snakes

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Snakes have no legs.

Elephants have four.

12/4 = 3.

11 - 3 = 8

He has 8 snakes.


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