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prealgebra junior

Problem

Miki has a dozen oranges of the same size and a dozen pears of the same size. Miki uses her juicer to extract 8 ounces of pear juice from 3 pears and 8 ounces of orange juice from 2 oranges. She makes a pear-orange juice blend from an equal number of pears and oranges. What percent of the blend is pear juice?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
A pear gives ounces of juice per pear. An orange gives ounces of juice per orange. If the pear-orange juice blend used one pear and one orange each, the percentage of pear juice would be
Final answer
B