One day on reaching school I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles parked in the school............... [CLOSED]

Question

One day on reaching school
I found there were a total of 16 bicycles and tricycles
parked in the school compound.
I counted the total number of wheels to be 38.
Find out the number of Bicycles and tricycles.

Answer 1

Let bicycles be x
Eqn: 2*x+3*(16-x)=38
Solving for x gives 10
Bicycles =10
Tricycles=6

Comments

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