SOLUTION: Kevin needs to produce 4000 milliliters of 44% alcohol solution. At his disposal he has 20% alcohol solution and 80% alcohol solution. How much of each does he need in order to pro

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Question 1097545: Kevin needs to produce 4000 milliliters of 44% alcohol solution. At his disposal he has 20% alcohol solution and 80% alcohol solution. How much of each does he need in order to produce his desired solution?
He needs ___ milliliters of 20% solution?
He needs ___ milliliters of 40% solution?

Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, ikleyn:
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Been done 100's, maybe 1000's of times.
Look it up.

Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
As your sample, see the lesson
    - Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions in this site (Problem 1).
in this site.

Read it attentively and then solve your problem by substituting your data.

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There is entire bunch of introductory lessons covering various types of mixture problems
    - Mixture problems
    - More Mixture problems
    - Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for antifreeze solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for alloys
    - Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
in this site.

Read them and become an expert in solution mixture word problems.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this textbook in the section "Word problems" under the topic "Mixture problems".

Save the link to this online textbook together with its description

Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/quadratic/lessons/ALGEBRA-I-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson

to your archive and use it when it is needed.