Four cups of pure water are added to a 20-cup bowl of punch that is 75% juice. What percentage of the new punch is juice?

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Goonie

1 June, 12:19

Four cups of pure water are added to a 20-cup bowl of punch that is 75% juice. What percentage of the new punch is juice?

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Esperanza Swanson · Answer 1

This is an example of a mixture problem. Given that originally, there are 15 cups of juice out of the 20 cups. With the added 4 cups of water, then there will now be 24 cups in total. So the percentage of juice in the new punch would be 15/24, or 62.5%.