Math help

[I-R-BABOON]

if 100bushels of corn are distributred among 100 people in such a manner that each man recieves 3 bushels, each women 2 bushels and each child half a bushel, how many men, women, and children are there?

BTW its for a friend of mine and i havent taken a math class in about 7 years so i have no idea where to begin with out guessing a bunch of #'s so any help would be much appreciated

 

[Sinister Angel]

100 = 3x + 2y + .5z
100 = x + y + z

I know it would start out something like that. Now you just have to go from there. It's been a while since I've messed around with solving series of equations. Well, not really, but I got retarded over the summer, so I can only do Calc right now :/

 

[taronis]

aw never mind, i'm drunk.........

 

[2F2F]

3x + 2y + (0.5)z = 100 and x + y + z = 100, so x = 14, y = 10, z = 76 or x = 5, y = 25, z = 70.

 

[I-R-BABOON]

Thanks a bunch guys

 

[ArkangelX3]

I got a better way,,,,the answer to answer all answers.....$XX.XX-Where XX.XX='s amount you pay someone to figure it out!

 

[IUP99snake]

It would be easier if 100 BEERS were distributed amone people in such a manner that each man got 3 beers, each woman got 2 beers, and each child gets a half beer, how many men, women, and children are there?

Good times.

-Homer