SOLUTION: Bill Bilderback, a druggist, needs 1000 milliliters of a 10% phenobarbital solution. He has only 5% and 25% phenobarbital solution available. How many milliliters of each solutio

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Question 18703: Bill Bilderback, a druggist, needs 1000 milliliters of a 10% phenobarbital solution. He has only 5% and 25% phenobarbital solution available. How many milliliters of each solution should he mix to obtain the desired solution?
I'm also supposed to put this in a linear systems form, if that makes sense. Thank you for your help.
Answer by Earlsdon(6103) (Show Source):
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Bill needs to add x ml. of 5% phenobarbital solution to (1000-x) ml. of 25% phenobarbital solution to make 1,000 ml. of 10% phenobarbital solution.
After changing the percents to their decimal equivalents, write the linear equation from the problem description.
Simplify and solve for x.
Combine like-terms.
Add 0.2x to both sides.
Subtract 100 from both sides.
Divide both sides by 0.2

Bill will need to mix 750 ml. of 5% phenobarbital solution with (1000-750) = 250 ml. of 25% phenobarbital solution to obtain 1,000 ml. of 10% phenobarbital solution.