2020 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 1
Luka is making lemonade to sell at a school fundraiser. His recipe requires times as much water as sugar and twice as much sugar as lemon juice. He uses
cups of lemon juice. How many cups of water does he need?
Solution
Luka will need cups of sugar and
cups of water. The answer is
.
Solution 2
Let and
represent the number of cups of water, sugar, and lemon juice Luka needs for his recipe, respectively. We are given that
and
. Since
, it follows that
, which in turn implies that
.
~jmansuri
See also
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