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You have a 10-liter mixture of 90% ethanol and 10% water. How much water would you have to add in order break the mixture down to 50% ethanol?
Answer
8 liters.Since you start out with 9 liters of ethanol, you need to end up with 18 liters overall for the ethanol content to equal 50%. To get 18 liters, just add 8 liters to the original 10-liter solution.
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I only had a quick go at it, but it is a
good answer-even though I got a
different one!
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SMITSH03
good answer-even though I got a
different one!
FROM
SMITSH03
they changed the solution b4 it was posted. here is what I had earlier: 90%(10) = 50%(10+x)
solving for x gives 8 liters.
solving for x gives 8 liters.
Well that was easy (no offense)
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