document.write( "Question 1084422: A 10L tank of salt water is composed of 20% salt and 80% water. How many litres of salt water should be removed, and replaced with salt, so that the salt water consists of 30% salt?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #698544 by josgarithmetic(39617)\"\" \"About 
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Remove 0.2x of salt and add or replace this with 1.0x of salt. The first term is amount salt as the 20% solution. The second term is pure undissolved salt. \r
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