document.write( "Question 1083346: You have two salt water solutions. One consists of 20% salt the other consists of 15% if you want to add these two together to make 5 gallons of 17% solution how much of each solution should you add? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let x be an amount (the volume, in gallons) of the 20% solution to be mixed.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the volume of the 15% solution is (5-x) gallons.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore, your \"salt balance\" equation is\r\n" );
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document.write( "0.2x + 0.15*(5-x) = 0.17*5.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Simplify and solve for x.\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There is entire bunch of lessons covering various types of mixture problems\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "    - Mixture problems\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "    - Word problems on mixtures for antifreeze solutions \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "    - Word problems on mixtures for alloys \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Read them and become an expert in solution the mixture word problems.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The referred lessons are the part of this textbook in the section \"Word problems\" under the topic \"Mixture problems\".\r
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