If you mix 18% cream with 2% milk, what is the percentage of the cream?

If we have equal amounts of each mixture, then the percent of cream is 9%.

To see this, let's suppose that we mix x amount of 18% cream with x amount of 2% milk.

Then the amount of cream contained in the final mixture is just .18x, And the total amount of both mixtures is 2x.

So.....     (.18x) / (2x)  = .09 or 9%.

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If you have equal amounts of each, you would end with 10%, but if you have more of one than the other, the percentage gets closer to the percentage of the larger amount.

If you have x quarts of 18% and y quarts of 2%, then use this formula: [.18x + .02y] / [x + y]