SOLUTION: If you add pure alcohol to a 15% solution, what percent alcohol are you adding, and how do you represent the percentage in decimal form?

SOLUTION: If you add pure alcohol to a 15% solution, what percent alcohol are you adding, and how do you represent the percentage in decimal form?

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Question 531061: If you add pure alcohol to a 15% solution, what percent alcohol are you adding, and how do you represent the percentage in decimal form?

Answer by oberobic(2304) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Pure alcohol is 100% alcohol.
15% alcohol is shown as .15*something.
Pure alcohol would be 1*something else.
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