SOLUTION: A 2/3 cup mix of lemon juice and olive oil makes a good cleaner for wood. If 1/4 cup of the mixture is lemon juice, how much of the cleaner is olive oil?

Question 298654: A 2/3 cup mix of lemon juice and olive oil makes a good cleaner for wood. If 1/4 cup of the mixture is lemon juice, how much of the cleaner is olive oil?
Answer by Deina(147) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Total volume is cup
cup of that is lemon juice, so the remainder is olive oyl.

first, convert the fractions to the same denominator:
4 * 3 = 12
giving us:
cups of olive oyl
& bob's your uncle!
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