SOLUTION: A biologist has three grams of rat food containing 0.006 of Strontium 90 for use as a radioactive in a study of bone cancer in these animals. How many grams of food with 0.011% Str

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Question 1161826: A biologist has three grams of rat food containing 0.006 of Strontium 90 for use as a radioactive in a study of bone cancer in these animals. How many grams of food with 0.011% Strontium 90 must be added so that the content of that metal in the food is 0.008?
Answer by greenestamps(13200) About Me  (Show Source):
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0.011% is 0.00011.

You can't mix concentrations of .006 and .00011 and get a concentration of .008.

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