A farmer has twice as many goats as cows and half as many pigs as cows. If he has 45 pigs in his farm, how many animals does he keep altogether?

      

A farmer has twice as many goats as cows and half as many pigs as cows. If he has 45 pigs in his farm, how many animals does he keep altogether?

  

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John
Let the number of cows be x.

Cows is x,

Goats is 2x

Pigs = $\frac{1}{2}x$

$\frac{1}{2}x$ = 45

x = 90

Cows = 900,

pigs = 180

Altogether he had:

90 + 180 + 45 = 315 animals
johnmulu answered the question on June 8, 2017 at 06:18


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