At a bird sanctuary Ricky counted 88 birds Of the birds he counted 16 were baby birds If he counted an equal number of adult males and females how many adult female birds did Ricky count?

Ricky would have counted 36 adult female birds. . out of 88, 16 were babies and the rest were adults. so 88-16=the number of adult birds = 72 if there was the same number of females as there were males, 72 divided by 2 is 36 so there are 36 females, 36 males and 16 babies (all add up to 88) so the answer is 36