SOLUTION: a) The Pinetown Recreation Bureau planned to build a rectangular ice-skating rink with dimensions 40m by 70m. Their budget has been cut, so they must reduce the area of the rink b

Question 1168250: a) The Pinetown Recreation Bureau planned to build a rectangular ice-skating rink with dimensions 40m by 70m. Their budget has been cut, so they must reduce the area of the rink by 650 sq. meters. A strip will be removed from one end, and a strip of the same width will be removed from one side. Find the width of strips.
b)A t-shirt design company is dying purple shirts for a school club. The shirts came out too light so the company needs to add more pure blue dye to the mixture to get a darker purple color for the shirts. The full vat of color holds 54 gallons of the original dye that is 27% blue. How many gallons should be drained and replaced with pure blue dye so that the mixture will be 40% blue?
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