SOLUTION: A vat contains 4000L of wine with an alcohol content of 10% . How much of this wine must be removed so that, when it is replaced with wine with a 17% alcohol content, the alcoh

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Question 954204: A vat contains 4000L of wine with an alcohol content of 10% . How much of this wine must be removed so that, when it is replaced with wine with a 17% alcohol content, the alcohol content in the final mixture will be 12% ?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Nevermind that the example question is for alcohol in wine and the lesson refered is for radiator with antifreeze, because the two mixture problems work the same way:

Drain and Replace: Radiator Antifreeze Mixture
http://www.algebra.com/my/drain-and-replace-antifreeze.lesson?content_action=show_dev

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