Homework Help: math

Posted by james on Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 8:30pm.

At the greenhouse where you work you need to make soil and vermiculite mixtures for potting plants. Flowering
bushes need a mixture of 70% soil and 30% vermiculite by volume. About how many buckets of vermiculite should
you add to 5 buckets of soil?

math - Ms. Sue, Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 8:34pm
Cross multiply and solve for x.

70/30 = 5/x
math - bronte, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 2:33pm
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