How many humans and horses were there?

Question

One day, a person went to a horse racing area. Instead of counting the number of humans and horses, he conuted 74 heads and 196 legs. How many humans and horses were there?

Comments

Very funny question

Answer 1

Everyone knows that Human and Horses have one head and human have two legs and horses have four legs.

Let number of human = x and number of horses = y

Now given that Total number of heads = 74 and Total number of legs = 196

So, x + y = 74 ---------------------(1) and 

2x + 4y = 196 ---------------------(2)

Solving the equations we get

x = 50

y = 24

Hence, the number of humans are 50 and the number of horses are 24