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I have 3 Fluids:

  • Base
  • Flavor1
  • Flavor2

The target is to have 50 ml of overall produce, where 10% are Flavor1 and 5% are Flavor2. If I just calculate it off the 50 ml, I end up with 57.5 ml, which is not how this is supposed to work.

How do I calculate how much I need of each fluid?

DeleteMe
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  • I am sorry for asking such, for you, basic question, but my math somehow left me today. Thanks for any help. – DeleteMe Jul 18 '15 at 22:58
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    Did you forget that you only need $85$% base? – Tom Tseng Jul 18 '15 at 23:03
  • @TomTseng But if I use only 42.5 ml of Base, then 5 ml wouldn't be 10% anymore. 10% would be 4.25 ml. – DeleteMe Jul 18 '15 at 23:05
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    The flavour percentages are not given with respect to the base, but rather of the whole. So for instance, $5%$ of the $50ml$, i.e. $2.5ml$, are flavour 2. – Arthur Jul 18 '15 at 23:18

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According to your clarification, you want something like: $$y=0.1x\\ z=0.05x\\ x+y+z=50\\ 1.15x=50$$

Outside of that, it would be $$y=(0.1)(50)\\ z=(0.05)(50)\\ x+y+z=50$$

Terra Hyde
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