A student assistant is cleaning up after a chemistry laboratory exercise and finds three one-liter bottles containing alcohol solutions. The first bottle is one-half full with a 20% alcohol solution, the second bottle is one-fifth full with a 30% alcohol solution, and the third bottle is one-tenth full with a 50% alcohol solution. The student pours the contents of all three bottles into an empty one-liter bottle. What is the approximate alcohol content of this mixed solution

The approximate alcohol content is 210 ml.

Explanation:

It can be deduced from the question that each bottle is of 1000ml or 1 litre.

The first bottle is one half full means it has 500 ml of solution and it has 20% alcohol in it. So volume of alcohol in the solution is

20/100*500

=100 ml

The first bottle is one fifth full, so the volume of mixture is 1/5th of 1000ml

so it is 200ml having 30% alcohol

30/100*200

= 60 ml

The third bottle is one tenth full so its volume is 1/10*1000

100 ml.  having 50% of alcohol

50/100*100

50 ml.

The alcohol content obtained from all these 3 litres is:

100+60+50

= 210 ml of alchohol is obtained from 800 ml of mixture.

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