Petsmart. com sold the following varieties of dog food in june 2003. nature's recipe venison meal & rice canine 20 percent protein, $21.99 per 20-lb bag nutro max natural dog food 27 percent protein, $12.99 per 17.5-lb bag petsmart premier oven baked lamb 25 percent protein, $22.99 per 30-lb bag a dog breeder wants to make 300 pounds of a mix containing 22 percent protein. how many bags of each dog food variety should the breeder buy? (hint: note that each bag is a different weight and fractions of bags may not be purchased.)

Let x  be the number of bags of Nature's Recipe Venison Meal & Rice Canine 20 percent protein, y be the number of bags of Nutro Max Natural Dog Food 27 percent protein and z be the number of bags of PetSmart Premier Oven Baked Lamb 25 percent protein a dog breeder buys. He  wants to make 300 pounds of a mix. Then

20x+17.5y+30z=300.

Now

Then 4x+4.725y+7.5z=66.

You get a system

From the first equation Substitute it into the second equation:

Simplify it:

y must be divided by 20, then

9 bags with 1st mix, 0 bags with 2nd mix and 4 bags with 3rd mix.

1,918

step-by-step explanation:

just do 5.2 + 2 ( 7.2) and 1/3 x 3 (.9) and youv'e got your equation. 0.9( 9/10) + 7.2 ^2 = 16.4 hope i could !

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