Question

Hank has a bottle of diluted syrup that is 60% maple syrup and a bottle of pure syrup that is 100% maple syrup in his restaurant. How many ounces of pure syrup should he mix with the diluted syrup in order to make 100 ounces of 85% maple syrup? Express your answer as a decimal rounded to the nearest hundredth if necessary.

Answer 1

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Answer:

62.5 oz of 100%

Explanation:

Let p represent the number of ounces of pure syrup. Then (100-p) is the number of ounces of 60% syrup. The amount of maple syrup in the desired mix is ...

p +0.60(100 -p) = 0.85(100)

0.40p +60 = 85 . . . . . . . . . . . simplify

0.40p = 25 . . . . . . . . . . subtract 60

p = 62.5 . . . . . . . . . divide by 0.4

62.5 ounces of pure syrup should be mixed with the diluted syrup to make 100 ounces of 85% maple syrup.

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The other 37.5 ounces will be 60% syrup.