SOLUTION: Fred needs 45 ml of 18% sucrose solution to do his science experiment. He needs to mix a 15% sucrose solution with some 40% sucrose solution to get the 18% he wants. How much of e

Question 1110527: Fred needs 45 ml of 18% sucrose solution to do his science experiment. He needs to mix a 15% sucrose solution with some 40% sucrose solution to get the 18% he wants. How much of each should Fred use?
Found 2 solutions by Alan3354, ikleyn:
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Been done 100's, maybe 1000's of times.
Look it up.

Answer by ikleyn(52784)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
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
    - Advanced mixture problems
    - Advanced mixture problem for three alloys
in this site.

You will find there ALL TYPICAL mixture problems with different methods of solutions,
explained at different levels of detalization, from very detailed to very short.

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
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this textbook in the section "Word problems" under the topic "Mixture problems".

Save the link to this online textbook together with its description

Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/quadratic/lessons/ALGEBRA-I-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson

to your archive and use it when it is needed.

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