SOLUTION: A candy distributor needs to mix a 20% fat-content chocolate with a 30% fat-content chocolate to create 100 kilograms of a 26% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kin
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Question 1165880: A candy distributor needs to mix a 20% fat-content chocolate with a 30% fat-content chocolate to create 100 kilograms of a 26% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?
A) Write an equation that uses the information as it is given above that can be used to solve this problem. Use
x
x
as your variable to represent the quantity of 20% fat-content chocolate.
Equation:
B) Answer: They must mix
Kilograms of the 20% chocolate and
Kilograms of the 30% chocolate. Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Think about the fraction for going from one concentration to the other concentration using the available chocolates. You could use or .
26% is closer to 30% than to 20% so the distributor wants of the mixture to be of the 30% fat content chocolate. (That would be, in this example, 60 kilograms.)
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