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

• Humans=50, Horses=24
  
  Let the number of humans be x and horses be=y, then
  Total heads= x + y = 74 ----(i) &
  Total legs = 2x + 4y = 196 ----(ii)
  On solving (i) & (ii), x=50, y=24
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• use assuming method:-
  
  given legs=196,
  we can write it as 100+96,
  now above can also be written as 50*2+24*4,
  where 50 stands for heads,2 stands legs and 24 stands for heads and 4 stands for legs.
  So, there is 50 humans and 24 horses
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