Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Question on Calculating Percentage of Sugar

Topic : Word Problem

Question : 10 grams of sugar are added to 40-g of break fast that is 30% sugar. What is the /% concentration of sugar in the mixture.?

Solution :
100 grams of breakfast has 30 gms sugar
40 gms of breakfast has 12 gms sugar
So 10 gms sugar is added
We get,
40+10= 50 gms of breakfast has 12+10=22 gms sugar
100 gms of breakfast has 100*22/50= 44 gms sugar
44 % concentration of sugar is the answer

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