As an employee of a summer sports camp, one of your jobs is to prepare the tank of vitamin water for use throughout the day. the mixture calls for 75% pure water and 25% concentrated vitamin drink. how many gallons of water should you add to 16 gallons of concentrated vitamin drink?

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Jillian Petty

24 August, 05:48

As an employee of a summer sports camp, one of your jobs is to prepare the tank of vitamin water for use throughout the day. the mixture calls for 75% pure water and 25% concentrated vitamin drink. how many gallons of water should you add to 16 gallons of concentrated vitamin drink?

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Charlie Knapp · Answer 1

Given:

Mixture of vitamin water = 75% pure water & 25% concentrated vitamin drink.

To find:

Quantity of water to be added to 16 gallons of concentrated vitamin drink to prepare a tank of vitamin water.

Solution:

Let total amount of mixture be x.

25% of x = 16 gallons (from given information)

When 25% of x is 16 gallons, the remaining 75% of x will be calculated as below:

(16/25) * 75 = 48

Answer: 75% of x = 48 gallons. This means 48 gallons pure water is required to be added to mixture to prepare a tank of vitamin water.