SOLUTION: 1. How many liters of a 50% solution should be added to a 80% solution to obtain a 60% solution?

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Question 68762: 1. How many liters of a 50% solution should be added to a 80% solution to obtain a 60% solution?
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I can't solve this. Suppose the 80% solution was the Atlantic Ocean?
If I don't know otherwise, I can assume it is. I'd be adding 50% solution
for tthe rest of my life, and it would have little or no effect.
Reread the problem.

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