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Question 998699: A radiator holds 9 liters. Suppose you have a bottle of pure antifreeze and a bottle of 10% antifreeze mixture. How much of each must you need to make enough of a 80% mixture to fill the radiator?
How liters of pure antifreeze?
How many liters of 10% antifreeze? Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:Answer by josgarithmetic(39628) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Not enough information. You need to know the capacity of each bottle. You probably have two gallons of material. This together will be too much less than 9 gallons.
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Think about the description logically. Nine liter radiator capacity, two "bottles" of ingredient materials, and you are not given the capacity of the bottles. What is the capacity of each bottle? Must a student guess at the size, maybe one gallon each? Will 2 gallons of material be enough to fill the nine-gallon radiator?
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A radiator holds 9 liters. Suppose you have a bottle of pure antifreeze and a bottle of 10% antifreeze mixture. How much of each must you need to make enough of a 80% mixture to fill the radiator?
How liters of pure antifreeze?
How many liters of 10% antifreeze?
Amount of pure antifreeze to mix: L
Amount of 10% antifreeze to mix: 9 – 7, or L
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