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Twenty percent of a mixture of pure milk and water is water.
\n" ); document.write( " Half a litre of wine is added to one litre of the mixture of water and milk and throughly mixed.
\n" ); document.write( " What percentage of the new mixture is water?
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\n" ); document.write( "Let x = percent, in decimal form, of water in the final mixture
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\n" ); document.write( ".20(1) = x(1+.5))
\n" ); document.write( ".2 = 1.5x
\n" ); document.write( "x = .2/1.5
\n" ); document.write( "x = .1333 or 13.33% water in the new mixture \n" ); document.write( "

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