SOLUTION: Problem Page The Royal Fruit Company produces two types of fruit drinks. The first type is 60% pure fruit juice, and the second type is 85% pure fruit juice. The company is attempt

Question 1110845: Problem Page The Royal Fruit Company produces two types of fruit drinks. The first type is 60% pure fruit juice, and the second type is 85% pure fruit juice. The company is attempting to produce a fruit drink that contains 75% pure fruit juice. How many pints of each of the two existing types of drink must be used to make 90 pints of a mixture that is 75% pure fruit juice?
Found 2 solutions by addingup, ikleyn:
Answer by addingup(3677)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
0.60x + 0.85(90 - x) = 0.75(90)
0.60x + 76.5 - 0.85x = 67.5
-0.25x = -9
x = 36 you need 36 pints of the 60% and
90 - 36 = 54 pints of the 0.85%
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is entire bunch of introductory lessons covering various types of mixture problems
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    - 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
    - Advanced mixture problems
    - Advanced mixture problem for three alloys
in this site.

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Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
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