SOLUTION: You add 50 grams of ground Costa Rican coffee to 200 grams of a ground mixture that contains 5% Costa Rican coffee. What is the percent of Costa Rican coffee in the new mixture?

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Question 837556: You add 50 grams of ground Costa Rican coffee to 200 grams of a ground mixture that contains 5% Costa Rican coffee. What is the percent of Costa Rican coffee in the new mixture?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Use a direct calculation and compute.

%2850%2A100%2B200%2A5%29%2F%2850%2B200%29, which simply is one hundred times the ratio of the Costa Rican coffee to the total mixture amounts.