SOLUTION: A farmer sell a mixture of wild bird feed in 50 pound bags. If 15% of the mixture is sunflower seeds, how many pounds of sun flower seeds will he need to make 100 bags?

SOLUTION: A farmer sell a mixture of wild bird feed in 50 pound bags. If 15% of the mixture is sunflower seeds, how many pounds of sun flower seeds will he need to make 100 bags?

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Question 199071: A farmer sell a mixture of wild bird feed in 50 pound bags. If 15% of the mixture is sunflower seeds, how many pounds of sun flower seeds will he need to make 100 bags?
Answer by RAY100(1637) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
# of sunflowers = .15 * 50 * 100 = 750 #
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check ,,,,total wt is 100 bags * 50 # = 5000 #
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% = 750 / 5000 = .15,,,,ok
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