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Mr. Hockmeyer needed to mix enough Smoothie Hand a Cleaner to fill 5000 cans. Each can required 16?ounces of product. How many pounds of each ingredient did he need to use based on the following formula?
Water 80%
Lanolin 2%
Aloe Vera 1.4%
Mineral oil5.0%
Murphy oil soap 11.0%
Fragrance0.6%

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Anonymous Mr. Hockmeyer needed to mix enough Smoothie Hand a Cleaner to fill 5000 cans. Each can required 16?ounces of product. How many pounds of each ingredient did he need to use based on the following formula?Water 80%Lanolin 2%Aloe Vera 1.4%Mineral oil5.0%Murphy oil soap 11.0%Fragrance0.6%

This has nothing to do with business letter writing.

16 ounces is a pound, so there's a pound in each can. 5000 cans means 5000 pounds.

Now all you need to do is figure out 80% of 5000, 2% of 5000, and so on.

CJ
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There are quite a few easy ways to do this. For example, 5000 is half of 10,000 and percents are easy for 10,000 because 1% of 10,000 is 100. You can just about eyeball them to figure the percents for 10,000, then use twice those for your answers.

CJ

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