SOLUTION: A chemical company mixes pure water with their premium antifreeze solution to create an inexpensive antifreeze mixture. The premium antifreeze solution contains 60% pure antifreeze
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Question 1189879: A chemical company mixes pure water with their premium antifreeze solution to create an inexpensive antifreeze mixture. The premium antifreeze solution contains 60% pure antifreeze. The company wants to obtain 180 gallons of a mixture that contains 40% pure antifreeze. How many gallons of water and how many gallons of the premium antifreeze solution must be mixed?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
180 gal 0.4 antifreeze=72 gallons pure antifreeze
72 gallons pure antifreeze is contained in 120 gallons of 0.6 anti-freeze
So you want 120 gallons of antifreeze and 60 gallons of water.
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