Question

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 fourteen tablespoons of olive oil. Show your work.

Answer 1

you need to know how much vinegar she used
proportion
.3/x = .7/14
x = 6
so she made 6 + 14 or 20 tablespoons of polish