Question

A chewing gum consists of 30% corn syrup and 40% sugar. The rest was made up by gum Arabic. Find the weight of the Gum Arabic in a 25gm piece of the chewing gum. Max points pls just bloody answer it

Answer 1

`7.5gm`

Explanation:

Solution:

`100\% - 30\% - 4\% = 3\% \: arabic \\ 30\% * 25 = 7.5`

Answer 2

7.5 grams

Explanation:

The percent of gum Arabic is 100 -30 -40 = 30 %

30% of 25 g =

.30 * 25

7.5 grams