Wow that's a great mixture

Algebra Level 4

I went to a party last night. There were two barrels of wine one filled with grape wine and one with orange wine. I thought to do an experiment, I took a wine glass and filled it half with grape wine and orange wine in the ratio 9:4, rest half of the glass I filled with water. Now I drank 40% of it and again filled grape wine and orange wine in ratio 6:7.

Now what is the percentage of grape wine in the resulting mixture?


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The answer is 39.23.

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2 solutions

Sean Sullivan
Jul 19, 2015

Intially the mixture is 9 13 \frac{9}{13} grape, then, adding the water it is half that, or 9 26 \frac{9}{26} grape. Now 40 % 40\% of this mixture is consumed leaving 3 5 \frac{3}{5} of the 9 26 \frac{9}{26} or 27 130 \frac{27}{130} of a full glass being grape.

Next 40 % 40\% of a full glass in a ratio 6 13 \frac{6}{13} or 2 5 6 13 = 24 130 \frac{2}{5}\frac{6}{13}=\frac{24}{130} of grape out of a full glass is added to the original, yielding 27 130 + 24 130 = 51 130 = 39.23 % \frac{27}{130}+\frac{24}{130}=\frac{51}{130}=39.23\%

Abhay Tiwari
Jul 17, 2015

Its too simple, treat 1 part as 100 ml. Now first I took grape to wine in 9:4=900ml:400ml , now this is half of the glass, which means other half(1300 ml) is filled with water. Now 40% of this mixture I drank, left over is in the ratio, (540:240:780). Now 40%= 1040 ml, and we have to add again a mixture of grape wine and orange wine in ratio 6:7 respectively with respect to 1040 ml, which is (480:560). Now adding it to the left over mixture we get a ratio as 1020:800:780 . Now easily you can calculate the grape wine percent. (1020/ 2600).

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