A farmer with a quick wit is asked how many goats and chickens he has. He grins and says \"my animals have 62 eyes and 90 legs\". How many goats and how many chickens? A merchant blends blackberry tea that sells for $3.00 a pound with ginger tea that sells for $2.75 a pound and ends up with 80 pounds of special tea that sells for $2.90 a pound. How much of each type of tea did he use in the blend? Two cyclists, 90 miles apart, start cycling toward each other. One cycles twice as fast as the other. If they come together in 2 hours, what average speed is each cyclist traveling? During his major league career Hank Aaron hit 41 more home runs than Babe Ruth hit during his career. Together they hit an astounding 1469 home runs. How many did each hit? An engineer earns a monthly salary plus an end of year bonus of $9400. If she earns a total of $104,000 for the year, what is her monthly salary?
Solution
48 pounds blackerry, 32 ginger
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1. A farmer with a quick wit is asked how many goats and chickens he has. He grins and says "my
animals have 62 eyes and 90 legs". How many goats and how many chickens? A merchant
blends blackberry tea that sells for $3.00 a pound with ginger tea that sells for $2.75 a pound and
ends up with 80 pounds of special tea that sells for $2.90 a pound. How much of each type of tea
did he use in the blend? Two cyclists, 90 miles apart, start cycling toward each other. One cycles
twice as fast as the other. If they come together in 2 hours, what average speed is each cyclist
traveling? During his major league career Hank Aaron hit 41 more home runs than Babe Ruth hit
during his career. Together they hit an astounding 1469 home runs. How many did each hit? An
engineer earns a monthly salary plus an end of year bonus of $9400. If she earns a total of
$104,000 for the year, what is her monthly salary?
Solution
48 pounds blackerry, 32 ginger
