Becca wants to mix fruit juice and soda to make a punch. She can buy fruit juice for $3 a gallon and soda for $4 a gallon. If she wants to make 28 gallons of punch at a cost of $3.25 a gallon, how many gallons of fruit juice and how many gallons of soda should she buy?
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We know that the total amount of punch Becca wants to make is 28 gallons, so we can write the first equation as: x + y = 28 We also know that the cost of the punch per gallon is $3.25, and the total cost of the punch is therefore 28 * $3.25 = $91. The cost Show more…
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