Question 67

# Gopal sells fruit juice mixture using orange juice and pineapple juice. Gopal prepares this mixture by drawing out a jug of orange juice from a 10 litre container filled with orange juice, and replacing it with pineapple juice. If Gopal draws out another jug of the resultant mixture and replaces it with pineapple juice, the container will have equal volumes of orange juice and pineapple juice. The volume of the jug in litres, is

Solution

Let volume of jug = $$v$$ litre

After first replacement, volume of orange juice = $$(10 - v)$$ litre

Volume of pineapple juice = $$v$$ litre

After second replacement, volume of orange juice remaining

= $$(10 - v) - (\frac{10 - v}{10} v) = \frac{(10 - v)^2}{10}$$

Volume of pineapple juice remaining = $$v - \frac{v^2}{10} = \frac{v (10 - v)}{10}$$

Total volume of pineapple juice = $$\frac{v (10 - v)}{10} + v = \frac{20v - v^2}{10}$$

It is given that container has equal volumes of both juices.

=> $$\frac{(10 - v)^2}{10} = \frac{20v - v^2}{10}$$

$$100 + v^2 - 20v = 20v -v^2$$

$$2v^2 -40v +100=0$$

=> $$v^2 - 20v + 50 = 0$$

=> $$v = 17.07 , 2.93$$

$$\because$$ Container is 10 litres, => $$v \neq 17.07$$

$$\therefore v = 2.93$$ litres