Petroleum production wildcat oil company has two refineries


Question: PETROLEUM PRODUCTION Wildcat Oil Company has two refineries, one located in Houston and the other in Tulsa. The Houston refinery ships 60% of its petroleum to a Chicago distributor and 40% of its petroleum to a Los Angeles distributor. The Tulsa refinery ships 30% of its petroleum to the Chicago distributor and 70% of its petroleum to the Los Angeles distributor. Assume that, over the year, the Chicago distributor received 240,000 gal of petroleum and the Los Angeles distributor received 460,000 gal of petroleum. Find the amount of petroleum produced at each of Wildcat's refineries.

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