Question

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Faith observed 26 bugs while doing research for her science project. She observed insects and spiders, which had a total of 168 legs. Bearing in mind that insects have 6 legs and spiders have 8 legs, how many insects did she observe?

17

18

19

20

Answer 1

your answer is 60 insects because 20x6 =120 then your remainding amount of spiders is 7 so multiply 6xamount of legs spiders have which is 8 then that =48 add the 2 amounts together and you get 168

an easy way to guess at how many legs the insects would have is to plug in the answers

Answer 2

so your answer is 20 insects

Answer 3

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