A candy distributor needs to mix a 20% fat-content chocolate with a 40% fat-content chocolate to create 200 kilograms of a 31% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?
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A candy distributor needs to mix a 20% fat-content chocolate with a 40% fat-content chocolate to create 200 kilograms of a 31% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?
A) Write an equation that uses the information as it is given above that can be used to solve this problem. Use xx as your variable to represent the quantity of 20% fat-content chocolate.
Kilograms of the 20% chocolate
Kilograms of the 40% chocolate.
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