SOLUTION: Need to see if I came up with the right answer to the following mixture problem: How much 5% acid must be added to 15% to get 50 ml of 8% acid?
I ended up with 116 ml of 5% mus
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I ended up with 116 ml of 5% mus
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Question 842257: Need to see if I came up with the right answer to the following mixture problem: How much 5% acid must be added to 15% to get 50 ml of 8% acid?
I ended up with 116 ml of 5% must be added. Any Help Found 2 solutions by richwmiller, Fombitz:Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! How much 15% acid is there?
I will assume that the total amount will be 50 ml which means your number of 116 ml is way to high.
x+y=50
.05(x)+.15*y=.08*50
x=35., y=15.
if we start out with 15 ml of 15% and add 35 ml of 5% then we will get 50 ml of 8%
You can put this solution on YOUR website! First off, how can you add 116ml to come up with a 50ml volume?
So something is wrong.
Let be the amount of 5% acid, be the amount of 15% acid.
Concentration:
1.
Volume:
2.
Subtract eq. 2 from eq. 1,
Then from eq. 2,
