SOLUTION: A candy distributor needs to mix a 30% fat-content chocolate with a 50% fat-content chocolate to create 100 kilograms of a 46% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kin

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Question 800428: A candy distributor needs to mix a 30% fat-content chocolate with a 50% fat-content chocolate to create 100 kilograms of a 46% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?
Answer: They must mix
how Kilograms of the 30% chocolate and how
Kilograms of the 50% chocolate?
How much fat is in each kind of chocolate?
how many Kilograms of fat in the 30% chocolate?
how many Kilograms of fat in the 50% chocolate?
how many Kilograms of fat in the 46% chocolate?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A rewording using all numbers as variables would be about like this:

|-------A candy distributor needs to mix a L% fat-content chocolate with a H% fat-content chocolate to create M kilograms of a T% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?---------|

Let u = kilograms of the L% fat content chocolate
Let v = kilograms of the H% fat content chocolate

Your equations would be these:
and
Solve for u and v.

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