SOLUTION: Ten grams of sugar are added to a 40 grams serving of a breakfast cereal that is 30% sugar. What is the percent concentration of sugar in the resulting mixture?

Question 752328: Ten grams of sugar are added to a 40 grams serving of a breakfast cereal that is 30% sugar. What is the percent concentration of sugar in the resulting mixture?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
grams of sugar in the cereal
Let = the fraction of sugar in resulting mixture
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44 percent of the final mixture is sugar

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