SOLUTION: Suppose you have one quart of water/juice mix that is 50% juice, and you add 2 quarts of juice and 1 quart of water. What percent of the final mix is juice?

Question 1013133: Suppose you have one quart of water/juice mix that is 50% juice, and you add 2 quarts of juice and 1 quart of water. What percent of the final mix is juice?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, fractalier:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

-----The FRACTION of the mixture which is juice.

62.5%
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you have 1 quart and add 3 quarts, you will have four total quarts.
How much of that is juice? Well, 1/2 of the 1st quart and two more quarts, so that
2.5 out of 4 quarts is juice...2.5/4 = 5/8 = .625 = 62.5% juice
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