SOLUTION: How much water should be mixed with an 8% plant fertilizer solution to make a half gal of a 6% plant fertilizer solution?
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Question 991009: How much water should be mixed with an 8% plant fertilizer solution to make a half gal of a 6% plant fertilizer solution?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The water is 0% fertilizer and only adds mass to the mixture, but adds no fertilizer to the mixture.
HOW MUCH OF 8% fertilizer and HOW MUCH WATER?
v, how much fertilizer from the 8%
1/2-v, how much water
You already know that you want half gallon of mixture, shown as the denominator.
------the amount of the 8% fertilizer.
------gallons of water.
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