In my garden there is a cage that contains both chickens and dogs. If there is a total of 30 eyes and 44 feet, how many of chicken and dogs are in the cage?

 8 chickens, 7 dogs

Step-by-step explanation:

You can create a system of equations.

Let c represent the number of chickens

and d represent the number of dogs.

Chickens have 2 eyes and 2 legs

     Dogs have 2 eyes and 4 legs

Total eyes is 30 and total legs is 44

  Legs: 2c + 4d = 44

- (Eyes: 2c + 2d = 30)

                    2d = 14

                      d = 7

Substitute d = 7 into either of the equations to solve for c

2c + 2d = 30

2c + 2(7) = 30

2c          = 30 - 14

2c          = 16

          c = 8