SOLUTION: A scientist mixes water (containing no salt) with a solution that contains 55% salt. She wants to obtain 220 ounces of a mixture that is 30% salt. How many ounces of water and how
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Question 1193646: A scientist mixes water (containing no salt) with a solution that contains 55% salt. She wants to obtain 220 ounces of a mixture that is 30% salt. How many ounces of water and how many ounces of the 55% salt solution should she use?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Change that "55%" salt solution down to less than about 24% salt, and then you would have a reasonable example problem. By "ounces", one should expect this means "one sixteenth of a pound".
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55% salt solution is nonsense!
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