Solution
Let be the number of dromedaries, and be the number of camels.
There are 60 animals in total, so .
Because dromedaries each have one hump, and camels two, the total number of humps is .
This is a linear system with two unknowns, and :
To solve it, we could subtract the first line from the second line, obtaining . Plugging this back into the first line gives .
Therefore, there are 25 dromedaries and 35 camels.

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