Hanna makes her own furniture polish using thirty percent vinegar and seventy percent olive oil. Write and solve an equation to determine how much total solution she made if she used 9 tablespoons of vinegar. Show your work.

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anonymous · Answer

(Total Polish)0.30 = 9 tbl spoons
Total Polish = 9/0.30

anonymous · Answer

would you mind explaining it?

anonymous · Answer

We know that 30 percent of the total polish consists of vinegar, correct?

anonymous · Answer

And we have 9 table spoons of vinegar, so that is how I derived the equation

anonymous · Answer

Make sure you label your answer with the correct units

anonymous · Answer

Does that make sense??