SOLUTION: A metallurgist needs to make 16.6 ounces of an alloy containing 40% nickel. If she melts a metal that is 30% nickel with another metal that is 50% nickel, how much of each should

Question 1097036: A metallurgist needs to make 16.6 ounces of an alloy containing 40% nickel. If she melts a metal that is 30% nickel with another metal that is 50% nickel, how much of each should she use?
Answer by ikleyn(52905)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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8.3 ounces of each alloy.

Each and every metallurgist knows such simple prescriptions.

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There is entire bunch of introductory lessons covering various types of mixture problems
    - Mixture problems
    - More Mixture problems
    - Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for antifreeze solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for alloys (*)
    - Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
in this site.

Read them and become an expert in solution mixture word problems.
For alloys, there is a special lesson marked by (*) in the list.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this textbook in the section "Word problems" under the topic "Mixture problems".

Save the link to this online textbook together with its description

Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
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