SOLUTION: a mixture of acid and water is 35% acid. if the mixture contains a total of 40 liters.how many liters of pure water in the mixture? how many liters of pure acid in the mixture?

Question 330153: a mixture of acid and water is 35% acid. if the mixture contains a total of 40 liters.how many liters of pure water in the mixture? how many liters of pure acid in the mixture?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let A be the amount of pure water(0% acid), B the amount of pure acid (100% acid).
1.
2.
From eq. 2,

Then from eq. 1,

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26 liters of pure water, 14 liters of 100% acid.

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