Question

To make pickles, fresh cucumbers are soaked in a salt water solution called brine. how many liters of a 4% brine solution must be added to 16 liters of a 10% brine solution to dilute it to an 8% solution?

Answer 1

This can be solved using basic algebra. X equals the number of liters of 2% brine to add. Therefore we use this equation. 3 + 0.02x = 2.4 + 0.08x 0.6 = 0.6x x = 0..6/0.06 x = 10