document.write( "Question 1055926: I'm having trouble with this mixture problem. The back of the book says the answer is 590 but I think this is wrong, anyway I'm stumped. Any help with this would be much appreciated. Here it is.\r
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I'm having trouble with this mixture problem. The back of the book says the answer is 590 but I think this is wrong, anyway I'm stumped. Any help with this would be much appreciated. Here it is.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Northern Maywood voted 60%to 40% in favor of a water project. Southern Maywood voted 90% to 10% against the project. The project passed 55% to 45%. If 5900 people voted, how many were from Southern Maywood.
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Let number of voters from Southern Maywood be S
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document.write( "Then number of voters from Northern Maywood = 5,900 – S
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document.write( "Number of voters in Northern Maywood, who voted FOR the project: 60% of (5,900 – S), or .6(5,900 – S)
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document.write( "Number of voters in Southern Maywood who voted FOR the project: 10% of S, or .1S
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document.write( "Since 55% voted FOR the project, we get: .6(5,900 – S) + .1S = .55(5,900)
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document.write( "3,540 - .6S + .1S = 3,245
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document.write( "- .6S + .1S = 3,245 – 3,540
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document.write( "- .5S = - 295 
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document.write( "S, or number of voters from Southern Maywood = , or  \n" );
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