SOLUTION: Solve: 17-4x/12=5
An 80-pound grass seed mixture is 30% bluegrass seed. How many pounds of seed containing no bluegrass seed (0%) should be added to the seed mixture
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Question 60648: Solve: 17-4x/12=5
An 80-pound grass seed mixture is 30% bluegrass seed. How many pounds of seed containing no bluegrass seed (0%) should be added to the seed mixture for a resulting blend that is 20% bluegrass seed?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Get rid of the denominator, mult eq by 12, results:
12(17) - 4x = 12(5)
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204 - 4x = 60
-4x = 60 - 204
-4x = -144
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Divide both sides by -4
x = -144/-4
x = 36
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An 80-pound grass seed mixture is 30% bluegrass seed. How many pounds of seed containing no bluegrass seed (0%) should be added to the seed mixture for a resulting blend that is 20% bluegrass seed?
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Let x = amt of of "no bluegrass" seed
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Write a per cent blue grass equation:
.30(80) + 0(x) = .20(80+x)
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24 + 0 = 16 + .2x
24 - 16 = .2x
8 = .2x
x = 8/.2
x = 40 lb of "no bluegrass" seed
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