SOLUTION: How many millilitres of water must be added to 240 milliliters of a 25% sulphuric acid solution to reduce the percentage of sulphuric acid in the new solution to 10%?

Question 1093331: How many millilitres of water must be added to 240 milliliters of a 25% sulphuric acid solution to reduce the percentage of sulphuric acid in the new solution to 10%?

Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Solve for W, where W is unknown volume of the water in mL under the question.

There is entire bunch of introductory lessons covering various types of mixture problems
    - Mixture problems
    - More Mixture problems
    - Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for antifreeze solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for alloys
    - Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
in this site.

Read them and become an expert in solution mixture word problems.

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
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The referred lessons are the part of this textbook in the section "Word problems" under the topic "Mixture problems".

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