At Jimmy-Joe's French Bistro, they buy their red wine in a concentrate form which is 33%alcohol by volume and mix it with a very cheap red wine that is only 8% alcohol in orderto get the stuff that is 15% alcohol which their customers prefer. If the Bistro needs toprepare 200 liters of the 15% alcohol wine, how much of the concentrate and how much ofthe 8% wine should they combine?3.

Let, they mix x liters of concentrated wine with cheap red wine to prepare 200 liters of the 15%…

Answered: At Jimmy-Joe's French Bistro, they buy…

College Algebra

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ISBN:9781337282291

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Chapter8: Sequences, Series,and Probability

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