SOLUTION: Two hundred ounces of juice that is 50% tomato juice are added to 100 oz of a vegetable juice that is 15% tomato juice. What is the percent concentration of tomato juice in the res

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Question 1173993: Two hundred ounces of juice that is 50% tomato juice are added to 100 oz of a vegetable juice that is 15% tomato juice. What is the percent concentration of tomato juice in the resulting mixture? (Enter your answer as a fraction)
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Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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Two hundred ounces of juice that is 50% tomato juice are added to 100 oz of a vegetable juice that is 15% tomato juice. What is the percent concentration of tomato juice in the resulting mixture?
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200*50 + 100*15 = 300*Conc

Answer by ikleyn(52781) About Me  (Show Source):
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It is  %280.5%2A200+%2B+0.15%2A100%29%2F%28200%2B100%29 = 0.3833... = 0.3833 (rounded) = 38.33%.    ANSWER

Solved.

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It is a standard and typical mixture problem.

For introductory lessons covering various types of mixture word problems see
    - Mixture problems
    - More Mixture problems
    - Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions
    - Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
in this site.

You will find there ALL TYPICAL mixture problems with different methods of solutions,
explained at different levels of detalization,  from very detailed to very short.

Read them and become an expert in solution mixture word problems.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this textbook in the section "Word problems" under the topic "Mixture problems".


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