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Juice mixtures: conserve volume and each ingredient

Three brands of apple juice, A, B and C, each contain a certain percentage of pure juice and some artificial flavouring. The breakdown of the amount of juice and flavouring for each brand is summarised in the table below.

ABC
Pure juice (%)207040
Artificial flavouring (%)0.50.80.7

How many litres of each brand should be mixed to produce 300 litres of juice with 41.1% pure juice and 0.647% artificial flavouring? marks

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CJC · Review Problems · Question 4

Name the unknown quantities and their units, then translate each independent condition into an equation.

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