Miki has a dozen oranges of the same size and a dozen pears of the same size. Miki uses her juicer to extract 8 ounces of pear juice from 3 pears and 8 ounces of orange juice from 2 oranges. She makes a pear-orange juice blend from an equal number of pears and oranges. What percent of the blend is pear juice? (A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 50 (D) 60 (E) 70

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Hailey Pugh

15 November, 04:21

Miki has a dozen oranges of the same size and a dozen pears of the same size. Miki uses her juicer to extract 8 ounces of pear juice from 3 pears and 8 ounces of orange juice from 2 oranges. She makes a pear-orange juice blend from an equal number of pears and oranges. What percent of the blend is pear juice? (A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 50 (D) 60 (E) 70

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Christine Collins · Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

A pear gives $8/3$ ounces of juice per pear. An orange gives $8/2=4$ ounces of juice per orange. If the pear-orange juice blend used one pear and one orange each, the percentage of pear juice would be

{8/3}/{8/3+4} X 100 = {8}/{8+12} X 100 = 40%