Question

Hanna makes her own furniture polish using twenty-five percent vinegar and seventy-five percent olive oil. Write and solve an equation to determine how much total solution she made if she used 2 cups of vinegar. Show your work.

Answer 1

What you want to do is find out what 2 is 25% of. To do this you can make 25% into a fraction, 1/4, and now we know that 2 = 1/4. Knowing this we can multiply both sides by 4, so now, 8 = 1, where 8 represents how many cups of liquid are in 1 mixture. Now we know that there are a total of 8 cups of liquid in this mixture and 2 of the 8 cubs are vinegar. You can multiply 8 by 75%, or .75, to find the amount of oil put in.
8*.75=6
So there are 8 cups of total solution :3

Answer 2

You can make sure by adding the total oil and vinegar
6+2=8
yay

Answer 3

thanks