2002 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 24

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Problem

Miki has a dozen oranges of the same size and a dozen pears of the same size. Miki uses her juicer to extract 8 ounces of pear juice from 3 pears and 8 ounces of orange juice from 2 oranges. She makes a pear-orange juice blend from an equal number of pears and oranges. What percent of the blend is pear juice?

$\text{(A)}\ 30\qquad\text{(B)}\ 40\qquad\text{(C)}\ 50\qquad\text{(D)}\ 60\qquad\text{(E)}\ 70$

Solution

A pear gives $8/3$ ounces of juice per pear. An orange gives $8/2=4$ ounces of juice per orange. If the pear-orange juice blend used one pear and one orange each, the percentage of pear juice would be

\[\frac{8/3}{8/3+4} \times 100 = \frac{8}{8+12} \times 100  = \boxed{\text{(B)}\ 40}\]

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Problem 23
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Problem 25
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