SOLUTION: A 17% acid solution is to be mixed with a 9% acid solution to produce 8 gallons of a 10% acid solution. How much of each is needed?

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Question 1074385: A 17% acid solution is to be mixed with a 9% acid solution to produce 8 gallons
of a 10% acid solution. How much of each is needed?
Answer by ikleyn(52788)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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0.17x + 0.09*(8-x) = 0.1*8.


Simplify and solve for x which is the volume of the 17% acid solution.


There is entire bunch of lessons covering various types of mixture problems
    - Mixture problems
    - More Mixture problems
    - Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for antifreeze solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for alloys
    - Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on word problems for mixtures
in this site.

Read them and become an expert in solution the mixture word problems.

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