SOLUTION: You're mixing blue paint with yellow paint to get a total of 66 gallons of the mixture. You want to use 11 times as much
yellow paint as blue paint. How many gallons of each shoul
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Question 1200296: You're mixing blue paint with yellow paint to get a total of 66 gallons of the mixture. You want to use 11 times as much
yellow paint as blue paint. How many gallons of each should you use? (Round your answers to one decimal place.)
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Work Shown:
b = amount of blue paint
11b = amount of yellow paint
b+11b = 12b = total amount of paint
12b = 66
b = 66/12
b = 5.5 gallons of blue paint is needed
11b = 11*5.5 = 60.5 gallons of yellow paint is needed
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