Homework Help: math

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 11:18pm.

One canned juice drink is 25% orange juice; another is 10% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 15L that is 125 orange juice?

math - Reiny, Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 11:22pm
use x L of 25% and 15-x of the 10%

(you have a typo at the end, I will assume you meant 12 %. If this is not right, then change the value on the right side of the equation below)

then

.25x + .1(15-x) = .12(15)

solve for x

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