In a pasture, there are sheep and chickens grazing. Together, the sheep and chickens have a total of 36 heads and 100 legs. Let represent the number of sheep and represent the number of chickens.
We can express the situation with the following equations:
The total number of heads:
The total number of legs:
How many sheep and how many chickens are there?
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