SOLUTION: A recipe for a rice dish calls for 8 oz of pure wild rice and 12 oz of a rice mixture that is 30% wild rice. What is the percent concentration of wild rice in the 20-ounce mixture

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Question 1146460: A recipe for a rice dish calls for 8 oz of pure wild rice and 12 oz of a rice mixture that is 30% wild rice.
What is the percent concentration of wild rice in the 20-ounce mixture?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Account for the amount of the wild rice.

8 oz of 100% wild rice
and
12 oz of 30% wild rice
makes
20 oz of some mixture percent wild rice.

As the fraction percentage:
%288%2A100%2B12%2A30%29%2F%2820%29=ThePercentageWildRice