SOLUTION: You want 50 oz of dye that is 27% red. What you have on hand is a dye that is 10% red and another dye that is 65% red. How much of each would you use to get the desired mixture?

Question 357764: You want 50 oz of dye that is 27% red. What you have on hand is a dye that is 10% red and another dye that is 65% red. How much of each would you use to get the desired mixture?

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let A be the amount of 10% red and B the amount of 65% red.
1.
.
.

2.
Multiply eq. 1 by (-10) and add to eq. 2,

oz.
Then from eq. 1,

oz.

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