SOLUTION: The Good Seed Flower Shop sells its own brand of fertilizer. It mixes one brand of fertilizer that contains 7% nitrogen with another than contains 8% nitrogen. The resulting mixtur
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Question 263724: The Good Seed Flower Shop sells its own brand of fertilizer. It mixes one brand of fertilizer that contains 7% nitrogen with another than contains 8% nitrogen. The resulting mixture contains 7.7% nitrogen. How many pounds of the 7% fertilizer must be used to make 400 pounds of the 7.7% mixture? Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The Good Seed Flower Shop sells its own brand of fertilizer. It mixes one brand of fertilizer that contains 7% nitrogen with another than contains 8% nitrogen. The resulting mixture contains 7.7% nitrogen. How many pounds of the 7% fertilizer must be used to make 400 pounds of the 7.7% mixture
7%-------------------- 8%----------------mix 7.7%
x----------------------400-x-------------- 400 ----------- lbs
