There are ten more newborn elephants than baby hippos. If an entire herd starts with 20 elephants and 35 hippos, and the female hippos, whose number is 5/7 of the total number of hippos, give birth to 5 new baby hippos each, find the number of animals that are there altogether?
The total number of female hippos is 5/7*35=
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<output>25</output>
25.
If each new hippo gives birth to 5 new baby hippos, the total number of baby hippos will be 5*25=
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<output>125</output>
125.
The population of hippos after 125 new ones are born is 125+35=
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<output>160</output>
160.
There are ten more newborn elephants than baby hippos, meaning there are 125+10=135 new baby elephants.
The population of elephants is 135+20=
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<output>155</output>
155.
Altogether, there are 155+160=
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<output>315</output>
315 animals.

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