A painter mixes paint worth $28 per gallon with paint worth $34 per gallon. Hewishes to make 15 gallons of a mixture worth $32 per gallon. How many gallons ofeach kind of paint must be included in the mixture?

Respuesta :

Given that a painter mixes two paint to get one type of paint, we can solve the mixture problem by creating a simultaneous equation. This can be seen below.

Explanation

Let the number of gallons needed from paint 1 be x

Let the number of gallons needed from paint 2 be y

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