SOLUTION: What weight of sugar syrup would you get if you made: 1) 10% sugar syrup from 80g of sugar 2) 70% sugar syrup from 350g of sugar 3) 5% sugar syrup from 6g of sugar 4) 30% sugar

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Question 1104318: What weight of sugar syrup would you get if you made:
1) 10% sugar syrup from 80g of sugar
2) 70% sugar syrup from 350g of sugar
3) 5% sugar syrup from 6g of sugar
4) 30% sugar syrup from 75g of sugar

Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, stanbon, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One could only assume you mean mass per mass.

Only doing ONE example, and you figure the others.

30% sugar syrup from 7 grams of sugar:
Adding x GRAMS of water,

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Total mass of these two materials will be grams.

Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What weight of sugar syrup would you get if you made:
1) 10% sugar syrup from 80g of sugar
2) 70% sugar syrup from 350g of sugar
3) 5% sugar syrup from 6g of sugar
4) 30% sugar syrup from 75g of sugar
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Answer:: 0.1*80 + 0.7*350 + 0.05*6 + 0.3*75
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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Answer by ikleyn(52786)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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What weight of sugar syrup would you get if you made:

1) 10% sugar syrup from 80g of sugar     0.1x = 80  ====>  x =  = 800 grams.

2) 70% sugar syrup from 350g of sugar    0.7x = 350  ====>  x =  = 500 grams.

3) 5% sugar syrup from 6g of sugar

4) 30% sugar syrup from 75g of sugar


Do the rest in the same way.



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