SOLUTION: Ziggy's Famous Yogurt blends regular yogurt that is 3% fat with its no-fat yogurt to obtain low fat yogurt that is 1% fat. How many pounds of regular yogurt and how many pounds of

Question 149742: Ziggy's Famous Yogurt blends regular yogurt that is 3% fat with its no-fat yogurt to obtain low fat yogurt that is 1% fat. How many pounds of regular yogurt and how many pounds of no-fat yogurt should be mixed to obtain 60 pounds of low-fat yogurt?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the pounds of regular yogurt you need
Call the pounds of no-fat yogurt you need
You have to end up with a mixture that is 1% fat.
Stated in words this is:
(pounds of fat you end up with) / (total pounds of mixture) = % fat
What is the pounds of fat you end up with?
There's no fat from the no-fat yogurt
The pounds of fat from the regular yogurt is
The problem says you need to end up with pounds of yogurt

That leaves pounds of the no-fat that need
to be added
20 pounds of the regular and 40 pounds of the no-fat are needed
check answer:

OK
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