At a bicycle store, there were a bunch of bicycles and tricycles. If there were 28 seats and 62 wheels, how many bicycles and how many tricycles were there?
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Let \( t \) be the number of tricycles. Step 2: Set up the equations based on the given information: Each bicycle has 1 seat and 2 wheels. Each tricycle has 1 seat and 3 wheels. From the problem, we know: Show more…
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