5 percent of a certain grass seed is timothy . if the amount of the mixture needed to plant one acre contains 2 pounds of timothy , how many acres can be planted with 600 pounds of the seed mixture ?
if the mixture contains 2 pounds of timothy , the mixture must be 40 pounds . thus we need 40 pounds of mixture per acre . 600 / 40 = 15 acres the answer is b .
divide(600, multiply(2, divide(const_100, 5)))