One canned juice drink is 25% orange juice; another is 10% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 15L that is 125 orange juice?

User Icon for Reiny Reiny answered
13 years ago

use x L of 25% and 15-x of the 10%

(you have a typo at the end, I will assume you meant 12 %. If this is not right, then change the value on the right side of the equation below)

then

.25x + .1(15-x) = .12(15)

solve for x

User Icon for Valerie Valerie answered
9 years ago

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User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
11 months ago

To solve this problem, we can use a technique called "mixture problems" or "algebraic mixture problems." Let's break down the problem into smaller steps:

Step 1: Assign variables for the unknown quantities.
Let's assume that we need to mix x liters of the canned juice drink that is 25% orange juice. Similarly, we need to mix (15 - x) liters of the canned juice drink that is 10% orange juice. Here, x represents the amount of the first drink, and (15 - x) represents the amount of the second drink.

Step 2: Set up equations based on the given information.
Since we want to attain a mixture that is 15 liters with an orange juice concentration of 125%, we can set up the following equation:

0.25x + 0.10(15 - x) = 0.125(15)

Here, 0.25x represents the amount of orange juice in the first drink (25% of x liters), 0.10(15 - x) represents the amount of orange juice in the second drink (10% of (15 - x) liters), and 0.125(15) represents the amount of orange juice in the final mixture (125% of 15 liters).

Step 3: Simplify and solve the equation.
Let's solve the equation:

0.25x + 0.10(15 - x) = 0.125(15)
0.25x + 1.50 - 0.10x = 1.875
0.15x + 1.50 = 1.875
0.15x = 1.875 - 1.50
0.15x = 0.375
x = 0.375 / 0.15
x = 2.5

So, we need to mix 2.5 liters of the canned juice drink containing 25% orange juice and (15 - 2.5) = 12.5 liters of the canned juice drink containing 10% orange juice to obtain 15 liters of a mixture with 125% orange juice concentration.