SOLUTION: Please help: One canned juice drink is 15% orange juice; another is 5% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 10L that is 77% orange jui

Question 1043897: Please help:
One canned juice drink is 15% orange juice; another is 5% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 10L that is 77% orange juice?

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.Please help:
One canned juice drink is 15% orange juice; another is 5% orange juice.
How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 10L that is 77% orange juice?
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It is impossible.

It is impossible to get 77% orange juice by mixing 15% and 5% solutions.

Check your condition.

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    - Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
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