SOLUTION: Sorry the text book has no ISBN. Please solve this Problem. 1. There are 220 barrels of cement in one shed and 510 in onother shed. How many barrels must be transferred from

Question 85131: Sorry the text book has no ISBN.
Please solve this Problem.
1. There are 220 barrels of cement in one shed and 510 in onother shed. How many barrels must be transferred from the second to the first shed so that the first shed will contain two-thirds as much as the second shed.
Answer by checkley75(3666) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
220+X=2/3(510-X)
220+X=340-2X/3
X+2X/3=340-220
5X/3=120
5X=360
X=360/5
X=72 NUMBER OF BARRELS TRANSFERED FROM SHED 2 TO SHED 1.
PROOF:
220+72=2/3(510-72)
292=2/3*438
292=292.

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