SOLUTION: we started with five gallons of an orange drink that was 90% water and 10% syrup. we added 1 gallon of concentrate and ended up with a resulting mixture that was 86% water and 14%

Question 1151733: we started with five gallons of an orange drink that was 90% water and 10% syrup. we added 1 gallon of concentrate and ended up with a resulting mixture that was 86% water and 14% syrup. determine what percent of the concentrate was water and what percent was syrup
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You mainly want to find the syrup concentration of the "concentrate".

5 gallons of 10%, plus 1 gallon of p percent, resulted in 6 gallons of 14%.

Solve for p.

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Answer by ikleyn(52787) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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