Question 889272: In order to make lemonade taste irresistible you will make 10-cup batches that consist of 50% water 25% lemonade mix 10% lemon juice and 15% sugar. Solve the problem, what ingredients did youhave leftover and how much of each one?do you feel like your plan waa effectively in maximixzing your ingredients? Reflect on your process and discuss a different way you could have approached this problems
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The description is incomplete. How many 10-cup batches do you want? How much of each ingredient is available? You just have a recipe for any 10-cup batch.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SUPPLIED:
Recipe, 1 batch, 10-cup
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INGRED_______ %vol___ QTY AVAIL(cups)
water_______ 50________ ____ 80
themix_______ 25____________ 44
lemJuice_____ 10____________ 36
sugar _______ 15____________ 40
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Maybe the question is supposed to be, "how many batches"? One recipe makes a batch of 10 cups. You want to find which material if any is available as the limiting material ingredient. Let us make another column for "percent available", and find the percentage of the material in the total inventory of ingredients; we can then spot which material is the one which will limit the batches.
Recipe, 1 batch, 10-cup
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INGRED____ %vol____ QTY AVAIL(cups)____ % of avail.
water ____ 50_______ 80 _______ 40
themix ___ 25________ 44 _______ 22
lemJuice ___ 10 ________ 36 _______ 18
sugar_____ 15_________ 40_______ 20
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Both the water and the lemon mix seem to be in lower percentages than the recipe specifies. The water is 80% of the recipe, and the lemon mix is  % of the recipe. The number of batches that can be made is limited by the water available. The available water material is the most limiting material.
Now, work back to the quantities and volumes of materials for batches.
80 cups of water is 50% for a batch of 80*2=160 cup recipe. Think about this paragraph very carefully to be sure you understand. The rest of the blend to prepare will be based on this 160-cup mixture or blend. Once you understand this, then
...continue...
Preparing 160-cup of blend means 16 of the 10-cup recipe.
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Lemon Mix, 0.25*160=40 cups
Lemon Juice, 0.10*160=16 cups
Sugar, 0.15*160=24 cups
(Formatting the charts was very difficult and still not right)
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