Heinz produces tomato puree by boiling tomato juice. Tomato puree has 20% water whereas tomato juice has 90% water.How many litres of tomato puree will be obtained from 20 litres of tomato juice ?

  • 12 litres
  • 23 litres
  • 32.5 litres
  • 45 litres
Answer:- 1
Explanation:-

Solution:
20 litres juice contain 10% Tomato, i.e.
20L juice=(20*10)/100 = 2L Tomato
Tomato puree contains 80% of water and 20% tomato.
This 80% tomato = 2L (which is contained by 100 puree)
So, Now this 2 L Consist 80% in puree
Thus, total puree will be,
2/.8 = 2.5L.

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