Whole milk is 4% butterfat. How much skim milk with 0% butterfat

Whole milk is 4% butterfat. How much skim milk with 0% butterfat should be added to 32 ounces of whole milk to obtain a mixture that is 2.5% butterfat?

Answer:

Say you add x oz of Skim Milk. You want a mixture with 0.025 fat. You currently have 4% of 32oz of fat = 0.04(32) = 1.28

So you have,
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Solve for x and you get that x = 19.2oz