AMC 10 Daily Practice Round 4

Complete problem set with solutions and individual problem pages

Problem 6 Easy

A bicycle has two wheels, while a tricycle has three wheels. There are a 17 such vehicles with 41 wheels. Find the number of bicycles.

  • A.

    10

  • B.

    11

  • C.

    12

  • D.

    13

  • E.

    14

Answer:A

Suppose that all vehicles are tricycles, then there are (3\times17-41)\div(3-2)=10 bicycles. Alternatively, we can also set up system of linear equations to solve the problem.