The owner of a 5000-gal oil truck loads the truck with gasoline and kerosene. The profit on each gallon of gasoline is 16¢ and on each gallon of kerosene it is 15¢. How many gallons of each fuel did the owner load if the profit was $780?

3000 gallons of gasoline and 2000 gallons of kerosene

Step-by-step explanation:

The first thing is that 16 ¢ and 15 ¢ are 16 and 15 cents, therefore we can express it as $ 0.16 and $ 0.15 respectively.

Now, we can solve by means of a 2x2 system of equations, we have to:

"x" is the number of gallons of gasoline

"y" be the number of gallons of kerosene

x + y = 5000 => x = 5000 - y

0.16 * x + 0.15 * y = 780

replacing

0.16 * (5000 - y) + 0.15 * y = 780

800 - 0.16 * y + 0.15 * y = 780

-0.01 * y = 780 - 800

y = -20 / -0.01

y = 2000

Therefore x:

x = 5000 - 2000

x = 3000

which means 3000 gallons of gasoline and 2000 gallons of kerosene

answer: there are x+184 pages in olivia's book.

step-by-step explanation:

let the total number of pages in the book which olive has already read be x.

then if olive has 184 pages left to read, then the total number of pages are in olive's book= pages she has read+pages she has left to read

therefore, the total number of pages in olivia's book=

hence, there are x+184 pages in olivia's book.

answer: your correct answer is b. d.

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