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Gnoma [55]
3 years ago
11

There are two containers of milk. There is twice as much milk in the first container as in the second. After using 2 gal. of mil

k from the second container and 3 gal. of milk from the first container, the second container had 4.5 times less milk than the first. How many gallons of milk were in both containers originally?
Mathematics
2 answers:
lara [203]3 years ago
8 0
Set equations for both containers:
Condition one: $y=2x$
Condition two: $(y-3)=4.5(x-2)$
plug in $y$ from condition one into the second equation:
$2x-3=4.5x-9$
simplify gives: $2.5x=6$
$\boxed{x=2.4}$
$\boxed{y=4.8}$
Black_prince [1.1K]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

4.8 gallons in the first container, 2.4 in the second container.

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