SOLUTION: One canned juice drink is 30% orange juice; another is 5% orange Juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 25L that is 15% orange juice? 30% 5%

Question 373879: One canned juice drink is 30% orange juice; another is 5% orange Juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 25L that is 15% orange juice?
30%
5%
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In words:
(juice)/(total solution) = 15%
Let = liters of 30% of needed
Let = liters of 5% of needed
given:
(1)
= juice in 30% and 5% oj
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(2)
Multiply both sides of (1) by
and subtract from (2)
(2)
(1)

and, since

10 liters of 30% oj and 15 liters
of 5% oj are needed

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