SOLUTION: Maple syrup worth $6.00 a gallon and corn syrup worth .80 cents a gallon are used to make a mixture worth $2.36 a gallon. How many gallons of each kind of syrup are need to make 50

Question 316205: Maple syrup worth $6.00 a gallon and corn syrup worth .80 cents a gallon are used to make a mixture worth $2.36 a gallon. How many gallons of each kind of syrup are need to make 50 gallons of the mixture?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let M be the gallons of maple, C gallons of corn.
1.
2.
Multiply eq. 1 by (-6) and add to eq. 2,

Then from eq. 1,

15 gallons of maple and 35 gallons of corn syrup.
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