SOLUTION: Fruit drink A consists of 6% pure fruit juice and drink B consists of 15% pure fruit juice. How much of each drink should you mix together to get 4 L of a 10% concentration of frui

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Question 284149: Fruit drink A consists of 6% pure fruit juice and drink B consists of 15% pure fruit juice. How much of each drink should you mix together to get 4 L of a 10% concentration of fruit juice?
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Answer by richwmiller(17219) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
first of all teachers should be promoting drinking fruit juices not that stuff like sunny d which is all sugar.
Let's say we are adding vitamins to the fruit juice in the same proportions
.06a+.15b=.1*4
a+b=4
a=2.22222, b=1.77778 these approximate amounts