SOLUTION: 1) Michael works at the EdHelper Juice company which makes juice. The company's most popular fruit juice contains 11% of real fruit juice and 89% of a non-fruit juice. How much of

Question 765398: 1) Michael works at the EdHelper Juice company which makes juice. The company's most popular fruit juice contains 11% of real fruit juice and 89% of a non-fruit juice. How much of non-fruit juice shold be added to 11 liters of fruit juice to make the popular fruit juice?

3) Jacob has three liters of 80% acid. How much acid should he add to make a solution that is 85% acid?

10) Brianna has 55% silver alloy. Emma has a 25% silver alloy. They mellted their alloys to create 112 grams of a 40% silver alloy. How many grams was Brianna's alloy?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
FRUIT JUICE

n for amount of non-real juice
Formula is 11% real juice, 89% non-real juice
and this is a dilution.
Solve for n.

SILVER ALLOY

B = grams of the 55% alloy
E = grams of the 25% alloy

and

That system can be simplified a bit by dividing the first equation by 5;

and

Solve the system for B and E.
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