SOLUTION: You create a recipe for slime mixing some 20% pure slime and some 80% pure slime to create 1000 gallons of 65% pure slime mixture. How many gallons of the 20% mixture are needed?

Question 1070952: You create a recipe for slime mixing some 20% pure slime and some 80% pure slime to create 1000 gallons of 65% pure slime mixture. How many gallons of the 20% mixture are needed?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Pure slime? Not a recipe. A recipe is something you eat. Otherwise, it's a formula.

x gallons of the 20% slime
1000-x gallons of the 80% slime

-------for the 20% slime, which leaves 750 gallons for the 80% slime.
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