Question

Cinderella made many new friends at the castle. After asking her fairy godmother to help, she invited her friends to go on a picnic. There were 36 heads and 104 legs in the group of horses, carriages, and riders. How many horses and how many people were there?

Answer 1

104 legs of horses means 26 horses, since you divide them by 4 to get the number of legs (4) per horse. If there are 36 heads and you subtract the 26 of the horses, you get 10 people heads. There were 26 horses and 10 people

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