Problema Solution
The wheel shop sells other kinds of vehicles l. There are bicycles and go carts in a different room of the shop. Each bicycle has only one seat and each go cart has only one seat. There are a tototal of 21 seats and 54 wheels in that room. How many bicycles and how many go carts are in the wheel shop?
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each bicycle has:1 seat and 2 wheels
each go carts has: 1 seat and 4 wheels
let
b = the number of bicycles
c = the number of go carts
There are a tototal of 21 seats and 54 wheels in that room:
b + c = 21
2b + 4c = 54
by solving the above system of equations we find:
b = 15 bicycles
c = 6 go cars
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there are 15 bicycles and 6 go carts in the shop.