Thandeka is organizing her birthday party that will be in few days. She is planning to make orange juice using orange concentrate and water. According to the concentrate bottle she needs to mix 1 part concentrate with 10 parts of water. If she uses 300ml of concentrate, how much water must she add to dilute it

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Reyna Beck

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6 January, 11:25

Thandeka is organizing her birthday party that will be in few days. She is planning to make orange juice using orange concentrate and water. According to the concentrate bottle she needs to mix 1 part concentrate with 10 parts of water. If she uses 300ml of concentrate, how much water must she add to dilute it

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Carissa Gross · Answer 1

Well for each concentrate, you need ten times the amount, so if it was 1ml of concentrate you would add 10ml of water. Since it is 300ml of concentrate, you need to add (300 x 10) ml of water, or 3,000 ml.