SOLUTION: How many gallons of cream that is 26% butterfat must be mixed with milk that is 2% butterfat to get 24 gallons of milk containing 4% butterfat?

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Question 343470: How many gallons of cream that is 26% butterfat must be mixed with milk that is 2% butterfat to get 24 gallons of milk containing 4% butterfat?

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the amount of 26% cream, the amount of 2% milk.

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2.
Subtract eq. 1 from eq. 2,


gallons
Then from eq. 1,

gallons

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