2002 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 24
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?
Solution 1
A pear gives 
ounces of juice per pear. An orange gives 
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
![\[\frac{8/3}{8/3+4} \times 100 = \frac{8}{8+12} \times 100 = \boxed{\text{(B)}\ 40}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/4/5/9/45978beb64182b3338319ac23975cd8e57986031.png)
Solution 2
Since it doesn't matter how many pears and oranges there are, you can make the number of them whatever you like. In this case, we could use 
, because it's the LCM of 
and 
. Then for the pears, there are 
ounces of pear juice. For the 6 oranges, there are 
ounces of orange juice. Since we are looking for the percent of pear juice, we need to do 
. Simplifying, we get 
. Hence the answer is 
.
Video Solution
https://youtu.be/KqOE0AvrRs8 Soo, DRMS, NM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TarSWoN3ne4 ~David
See Also
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