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150g of sugar was used to make a bottle of 8% syrup. How much water was used to make this bottle of syrup? How much syrup is there in this bottle?

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1725 grams of water were used to make the bottle of syrup. There is a total of 1875 grams of liquid in the bottle.
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Answer: 1725g of water is used to make bottle of syrup . The bottle has 1875g of syrup .

Explanation:

Given: 150g of sugar was used to make a bottle of 8% syrup.

Let the total mass of the syrup be x grams.

Then we have
8%\ of\ x=150


\Rightarrow 0.08x=150\\\\\Rightarrow x=(150)/(0.08)\\\\\Rightarrow x=1875\ g

Therefore, The bottle has 1875g of syrup .

The amount of water used to make this bottle of syrup =
1875\ g-150\ g

Hence, the amount of water used to make this bottle of syrup =
1725\ g

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