You're mixing blue paint with yellow paint to get a total of 18 gallons of the mixture. You vant to use 11 times as much yellow paint as blue paint. How many gallons of each should you use? (Round your answers to one decimal place.) yellow paint gal blue paint gal

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You're mixing blue paint with yellow paint to get a total of 18 gallons of the mixture. You vwant to use 11 times as much yellow paint as blue paint. How many gallons of each
should you use? (Round your answers to one decimal place.)
yellow paint
blue paint
gal
gal
Transcribed Image Text:You're mixing blue paint with yellow paint to get a total of 18 gallons of the mixture. You vwant to use 11 times as much yellow paint as blue paint. How many gallons of each should you use? (Round your answers to one decimal place.) yellow paint blue paint gal gal
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