<PRE><B>Question 288280</B>
Maple syrup worth $6.00 a gallon and corn syrup worth .80 cents a gallon are used to make a mixture worth $2.36 a gallon. How many gallons of each kind of syrup are need to make 50 gallons of the mixture?

{maple syrup:  gallons, corn syrup: gallons}


let quantity of maple syrup used be x gallons

corn syrup used will be 50-x gallons

6*x+0,8(50-x)= 2.36*50

6x+40-0.8x=118.00

5.2x=118-40

5,2x=74

x=74/5.2

x=14.2 gallons

35.8 gallons will be corn syrup.

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