SOLUTION: An insecticide contains 72 centigrams of intert ingredient for every 1 centigram of active ingredient. If a quantity of the insecticide weighs 438 centigrams, how much of each type

Question 763434: An insecticide contains 72 centigrams of intert ingredient for every 1 centigram of active ingredient. If a quantity of the insecticide weighs 438 centigrams, how much of each type of ingredient it contains?
Answer by Cromlix(4381) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
An insecticide contains 72 centigrams of inert ingredient for every 1 centigram of active ingredient.
If we have 438 centigrams of insecticide you will have 438 * 72 = 31536 centigrams
of inert material.
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