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How much of an alloy that is 40% copper should be mixed with 200 ounces of an alloy that is 70% copper in order to get an
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Question 1113802: May I please to ask for your help to solve the following;
How much of an alloy that is 40% copper should be mixed with 200 ounces of an alloy that is 70% copper in order to get an alloy that is 50% copper?
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, ikleyn:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How much of an alloy that is 40% copper should be mixed with 200 ounces of an alloy that is 70% copper in order to get an alloy that is 50% copper?
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f = 40%
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200*70 + f*40 = (200+f)*50
Answer by ikleyn(52788) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is entire bunch of introductory 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
in this site.
You will find there ALL TYPICAL mixture problems with different methods of solutions,
explained at different levels of detalization, from very detailed to very short.
Read them and become an expert in solution mixture word problems.
Of these lessons, there is a special lesson for alloys. It is marked (*) in the list.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this textbook in the section "Word problems" under the topic "Mixture problems".
Save the link to this online textbook together with its description
Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/quadratic/lessons/ALGEBRA-I-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson
to your archive and use it when it is needed.
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