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My problem is the following:

In a particular steel mixture, $20 \%$ of it consists from chromium and $10\%$ from nickel. How much of this steel mixture can be produced, if we have $1200$kg of chromium and $900$kg of nickel. The other steel ingredients don't limit the amount of steel mixture we can produce.

a) $9 000$kg

b) $7000$kg

c) $6000$kg

d) $4500$kg

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My question is: Is the correct answer c) $6000$kg?

P.S. Please let me know if the task is unclear, I translated it from another language the best I could ;)

Martin Sleziak
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jjepsuomi
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Yeah, with $ 1200 $ kg of chromium you can produce at most $6000 $ kg of steel. With your quantities of nichel you can produce $9000 $ kg of steel Instead. But now you have to deal with the fact you don't have enough chromium. So 6000 is the correct answer.

Riccardo
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  • +1 Thank you @Riccardo, I thought so too, thnx =) Appreciate it – jjepsuomi Apr 04 '14 at 19:07
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    Not a problem. During high school I made lots of these problems, you have to calculate (for every ingredient) the maximun theoric quantity of product given only one limited ingredient, and then choosing the least quantity :) – Riccardo Apr 04 '14 at 19:08