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a farmhouse shelters 23 animals some of them are ducks and the others are goats . altogether these animals have 62 legs. find how many ducks and goats are in The farmhouse.

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Given data:

The total numbers of shelters are n=23.

The total nubers of legs are L=62.

Goat have 4 legs and duck have 2 legs.

Let x is the number of goats ten, numbers of the ducks are,

d=n-x

=23-x

The expression for the total numbers of legs are,

4x+2(23-x)=62

2x+46=62

2x=16

x=8

The numbers of ducks are

d=23-8

=15

Thus, total numbers of ducks are 15 and total numbers of goats are 8.

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