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Mon wants to make 5 lbs of the sugar syrup. How much water and how much sugar does he need… b …to make 20% syrup? Answer: lbs of sugar, lbs of water

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Answer:

1 lb sugar 4 lb water

Explanation:

User Zeng Cheng
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Answer:

Mom would required 1 lbs of Sugar and 4 lbs of water.

Explanation:

Given:

Amount of Sugar syrup Mom wants to make = 5 lbs

Percentile amount of syrup she needs to make = 20%

Solution:

Let amount of sugar to make 20% syrup be 'x'.

So by definition of proportion we get;


\frac {x}{5}=(20)/(100)

Now Multiplying both side by 5 we get;


\frac {x}{5}*5=(20)/(100)*5\\\\x=1\ lbs

So we can say that;

Amount of water =
5-1=4 \ lbs

Hence Mom would required 1 lbs of Sugar and 4 lbs of water.

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