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The school's lemonade is $10\%$ lemon juice by volume, and the rest is sugar water. How many liters of lemon juice must be added to 20 liters of sugar water to make the school's lemonade?

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Answer:

20/9

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20/9

10 % = lemon juice, so 90 % = sugar water.
Therefore, we have a ratio of lemon juice to sugar water:
10:90, or 1:9

1/9 times 20 liters of sugar water = 20/9
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