A spider has 8 legs. An ant has 6 legs. There are a group of spiders and a group of ants. The grups has equal numbers of legs. What is the least number of spider and ants?

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anonymous · Answer

3 spiders and 4 ants

anonymous · Answer

3*8=24
4+6=24
so 3 spiders, and 4 ants

turingtest · Answer

8x=6y
where x=# spiders and y=# ants
6/8=y/x=3/4
y=4, x=3

anonymous · Answer

It would be 6/8=x/y not y/x.

anonymous · Answer

I'm very bad at maths.  Could you please explain in details how you got the answer

anonymous · Answer

Ok whatch it like this, one spider=8 legs, and one ant=6 legs
u can imagine that x is number of spiders and y is number os ants..
so number of spider legs  is 8*x, and number of ant legs is 6*y
Question is to find x and y, but u know that number of legs has to be same so:
8*x=6*y, and u just have to find 2 numbers that matches(u dont even have to do any calculating...)