You need a 55% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 525 mL of a 45% alcohol mixture. You also have 90% alcohol mixture. How much of the 90% mixture will you need to add to obtain the desired solution? You will need mL of the 90% solution to obtain mL of the desired 55% solution.

Let's call the amount of 90% solution x.

We can write:

45% * 525 + 90%x = 55%(x + 525)

0.45 * 525 + 0.9x = 0.55(x + 525)

Solving for x we get x = 150 so the first blank is 150 and the second blank is 525 + 150 = 675.

option a is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

scale factor: it is used to find proportional measurements.

proportions means having the same ratio.

scale factor is the ratio of the model measurement to the actual measurement in a simplest form.

or we can say that the ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures

if the scale factor is more than 1, then it is an enlargement,

if the scale factor less than 1, then it is a reduction.

given the two geometric figure:

by definition of proportions, we have