SOLUTION: An ice cream is being made from 95% fat-free frozen yogurt and 85% fat-free dessert topping. How many ounces of each should be used if we wish to have a 20 ounce of 90% fat-free ic
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Question 910615: An ice cream is being made from 95% fat-free frozen yogurt and 85% fat-free dessert topping. How many ounces of each should be used if we wish to have a 20 ounce of 90% fat-free ice cream? Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Yogurt is mixed with dessert "topping", and it is being called, "Ice Cream"? The mixture will not result in ice cream.
Aside from the wrong naming and identifying of ingredients, your goal is to solve for quantities based on fractions of fat.
x for how much of the 85% fat ingredient
y for how much of the 95% fat ingredient
Units of measure is "ounces".
Want 20 ounces of 90% fat.
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Without solving, one can judge the answer as 10 ounces of each. The actual solution process should show that to be the answer.
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