SOLUTION: how many liters of water should be added to 20 liters of a 70 percent antifreeze solution to make a 50 percent antifreeze solution?

Question 913873: how many liters of water should be added to 20 liters of a 70 percent antifreeze solution to make a 50 percent antifreeze solution?

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
how many liters of water should be added to 20 liters of a 70 percent antifreeze solution to make a 50 percent acid solution?
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"20 liters of a 70 percent antifreeze solution" means we have

20*0.70 = 14 liters of pure antifreeze
20-14 = 6 liters of pure water (alternate calculation: 20*0.3 = 6)

Let x = amount of pure water to add

We have 14 liters of pure antifreeze. This figure does NOT change when we add the pure water.

We have 20 liters of solution. This gets bumped up to 20+x when we add the pure water.

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So we go from to . The fraction represents the percentage of antifreeze in the solution.

We want this percentage to be 50%, so set the fraction equal to 0.50 and solve for x.

So you need to add 8 liters of pure water to make a 50 percent antifreeze solution.

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Jim
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