Rabbits and Chickens

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L. Mangham, Hylands School, UK
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
"Good timing! Just the starter I needed for my simultaneous equation topic. Thanks."
The Best Maths Class Ever 7cd/M2, King Alfred's College, Oxfordshire
Thursday, April 23, 2009
"We all tried our best to find the answer by guessing. But our teacher showed us how to use simultaneous equations to get the answer quickly. A tough question for a year 7 class."
M T, 8b/Ma1 Harris Academy Purley
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
"My class was just introduced to constructing and solving linear equations at the time, and I constructed a linear equation to find a solution for this starter. I let the number of rabbits be represented by x. Then 4x + 2(total heads-x)= total number of legs."
Simbarashe Mukumbira, Mazowe High School
Friday, April 22, 2011
"This maths stater was just the thing I wanted before I wrote my algebra test."

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Answer

There are 35 rabbits and 25 chickens in the field.

Extension question: How many rabbits and chickens are in a field if the number of legs is three times the number of heads?


	Teacher, do your students have access to computers? Do you have "Laptops in Lessons"? Whether your students each have a TabletPC or share a desktop PC, this activity lends itself to eLearning (Engaged Learning).

Here is the URL which will take them to a concise version of this page.

Transum.org/go/?Start=April23

Here's the URL which will take
them to some other simultaneous equations.

Rabbits and Chickens

A Maths Starter of The Day