Bicycles and tricycles

Bicycles and tricycles

Secondary 2
5 marks
TGM Original Questions

A rental shop has \(47\) bicycles and tricycles altogether. The bicycles and tricycles have a total of \(121\) wheels. Let \(b\) be the number of bicycles and \(t\) be the number of tricycles.

  1. Form two equations in \(b\) and \(t\) to represent the information.[2]
  2. Hence, solve the simultaneous equations obtained in (a) and find the numbers of bicycles and tricycles.[3]

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Answer:(a) \(b+t=47,2b+3t=121\) (b) \(b=20,t=27\)

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