SOLUTION: A car radiator has a 6-liter capacity. If the liquid in the radiators 40% antifreeze, how much liquid must be replaced with pure anitfreeze to bring the mixture up to a 50% solutio

Question 331347: A car radiator has a 6-liter capacity. If the liquid in the radiators 40% antifreeze, how much liquid must be replaced with pure anitfreeze to bring the mixture up to a 50% solutions? If I told you the answer is 1 liter, in your own words, using complete sentences explain how you would solve this problem

Answer by galactus(183) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x=number of liters of mixture to be drained.
We drain out x amount of the 40% and then add back the same amount of pure.
So, we have the equation

liter.
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