Question

PLEASE HELP WILL FAN AND GIVE MEDAL

Meg has a can that contains 80% of orange juice and the rest water. the can has 1 liter of water

Part A: choose the variable and state what it represents:

what percentage of water is in the can?

create an equation for part A:

solve the equation:

Answer 1

This is confusing me I don't get it!!

Answer 2

Water is 20%

Answer 3

how do you know ? explain.

Answer 4

cause i want to know too

Answer 5

80% + 20% = 100%

Answer 6

There's no more than 100% in something

Answer 7

ok. now ill explain

Answer 8

90 -10 + 20 = 100. I guess for the equation.

Answer 9

if 80% of the can is taken up by orange juice. then that means 20% of the can is water. and if that 20% of the can is equal to 1 liter, then the whole can is full of 5 liters.

Answer 10

so then, the equation would be X=.8 times 5

Answer 11

Oh, I get it now.

Answer 12

X equals orange juice

Answer 13

5-X=1