SOLUTION: To create a breakfast beverage, pineapple juice in two concentrations, 18% and 50%, must be combined into a solution that will be mixed with another type of juice to produce the be

Question 648497: To create a breakfast beverage, pineapple juice in two concentrations, 18% and 50%, must be combined into a solution that will be mixed with another type of juice to produce the beverage. If 30 gallons of 18% juice is used, how many gallons of the 50% juice must be used to obtain a 40% pineapple juice solution?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = gallons of 50% juice needed
= gallons of pineapple juice in 50% juice
gallons of pineapple juice in 18% juice
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66 gallons of 50% juice are needed
check:

OK
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