πagarwalmath · 4th grade · Common Core MP.1
🚀 Challenge puzzles
Make sense of problems and keep at them (puzzles that need thinking, not a known method)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 24 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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2A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 34 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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3A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 40 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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4A farm has chickens and cows: 2 heads and 6 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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5A farm has chickens and cows: 10 heads and 32 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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6A farm has chickens and cows: 9 heads and 28 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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7A farm has chickens and cows: 5 heads and 18 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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8A farm has chickens and cows: 11 heads and 38 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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9A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 26 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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10A farm has chickens and cows: 8 heads and 18 legs in all. How many cows are there?
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11A farm has chickens and cows: 14 heads and 42 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
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12A farm has chickens and cows: 13 heads and 40 legs in all. How many chickens are there?
Answer: ______________
Answer key: Challenge puzzles
- 1. 3
- 2. 1
- 3. 7
- 4. 1
- 5. 4
- 6. 4
- 7. 1
- 8. 8
- 9. 5
- 10. 1
- 11. 7
- 12. 6
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