SOLUTION: The kayla's and cody's ice cream store sells ice cream shakes made of ice cream and milk. The milk used has 2% fat and the ice cream had 30% fat. Anna is in charge of making shakes
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Question 766652: The kayla's and cody's ice cream store sells ice cream shakes made of ice cream and milk. The milk used has 2% fat and the ice cream had 30% fat. Anna is in charge of making shakes. Today's mix had a total of 23% fat. If Anna used three quarts of milk, how many quarts does the entire mixture contain?
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quarts of ice cream are used
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Anna used three quarts of milk quarts of fat in the milk
Let = quarts of ice cream needed = quarts of fat in ice cream
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9 quarts of ice cream are needed
There are quarts in the entire mixture
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The kayla's and cody's ice cream store sells ice cream shakes made of ice cream and milk. The milk used has 2% fat and the ice cream had 30% fat. Anna is in charge of making shakes. Today's mix had a total of 23% fat. If Anna used three quarts of milk, how many quarts does the entire mixture contain?
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let x=number of quarts of 23% fat mixture
x-3=quarts of 30% fat ice cream used
2%*3+30%(x-3)=23%x
.06+.30x-.90=.23x
.07x=.84
x=12
how many quarts does the entire 23% fat mixture contain? 12
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