Question

200 litres of a mixture contains 15% water arid the rest is milk. The amount of milk that must be added so that the resulting mixture contains 87.5% milk is?

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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation: first we need to know the milk pecentage present in 200lit. Of liquid. That is 85%, (170 liter) to make it 87.5% calculate the amount of 2.5%milk by 200 lit i.e. 2.5*200/100=5 so the amount added will be 5lit. To make the percentage 87.5.