SOLUTION: one bottle of juice is 15% orange juice;another is 10% orange juice. how many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 5L that is 12% orange juice? how many liters

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Question 968220: one bottle of juice is 15% orange juice;another is 10% orange juice.
how many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 5L
that is 12% orange juice? how many liters of the 15% orange juice
should be in the mixture?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39626) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Mixing two concentrations for known amount of mixture
http://www.algebra.com/my/Mixtures%3A-All-in-Symbols.lesson?content_action=show_dev

You should try, instead of what shown in that lesson, to use only a single variable to solve this mixture problem. Either way, you can still study and use the referenced lesson.