SOLUTION: Adam & his brother mixed together two types of soil to make 14m of soil with a 38% silt content. They used 4m of a soil with 28% silt content and 10m of another type of soil. What

SOLUTION: Adam & his brother mixed together two types of soil to make 14m of soil with a 38% silt content. They used 4m of a soil with 28% silt content and 10m of another type of soil. What

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Question 447267: Adam & his brother mixed together two types of soil to make 14m of soil with a 38% silt content. They used 4m of a soil with 28% silt content and 10m of another type of soil. What was the silt content of the second type of soil?
Answer by rwm(914) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
10x+.28*4=.38*14
x=.42=42%

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