Emerson is making a punch that contains 60% grape juice and the rest lemon-lime soda. The punch has 2 liters of lemon-lime soda.

Question

Part A: Write an equation using one variable that can be used to find the total number of liters of grape juice and lemon-lime soda in the punch. Define the variable used in the equation. (5 points)

Part B: How many liters of grape juice are present in the punch? Show your work. (5 points)

(10 points)

Answer 1

Let the total amount of juice be x litres.
.4x = 2
x = 2/.4 = 5

So of that 5 litres, .6(5) or 3 litres is grape juice
and .4(5) or 2 litres is lemon juice.

I will let you sort out how to answers your parts of the question