Question

A dairyman wishes to mix milk containing 5% butterfat and cream containing 75% butterfat to produce a total mixture of 56 liters. This final mixture should contain 53% butterfat. How much of the milk mixture and how much of the cream mixture should he use

Answer 1

18% of the milk mixture and how much of the cream mixture should he use.

How much of the milk mixture and how much of the cream mixture should he use?

A dairyman wants to combine milk with 5 percent butterfat and cream with 75 percent butterfat to create a 56-liter combination. Butterfat should make up 53% of the final combination.

Let x represent the volume of MILK required for the combination, in liters.

Consequently, x/56 is the PROPORTION of milk in the mixture. [because the final mixture has 56 liters in total]

We require 56 - x liters of CREAM in the mixture because we have 56 liters overall in the mixture.

The PROPORTION of cream in the combination is therefore equal to (56 - x)/56.

Our goal is for the final mixture to have 75% butterfat.

Fill in the equation with each of these values to obtain:

50 = (x/60)(5) + ((60 - x)/60) (75)

Add 56 to both sides to get: 3000 = (5)(x) + (56 - x)(75)

The formula is:

Multiply both sides by 56 to get: 3000 = (5)(x) + (56 - x)(75)

Expand: 3000 = 5x + 4200 - 75x

Simplify: 3000 = 4200 - 70x

Subtract 4500 from both sides: -1300 = -70x

Solve: x = (-1300)/(-70) = (1300)/(70) = 130/7

If you don't want to divide 130 by 7, you can evaluate this quickly by first realizing that 30/7 = 18.

Consequently, 130/7 must be a little larger than 18.

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