Material balance:
a winery produces sherry by blending three varieties of wines to obtain the desired alcohol level of 16% by weight, and a sugar content of 3%. determine the quantities of the three wines to be blended in order to make 6000 liters of sherry*. the three available varieties of wines and their sugar and alcohol content by weight are listed below:
wine a: 14.6 % alcohol, and 0.2 % sugar
wine b: 16.7 % alcohol, and 1.0 % sugar
wine c: 17.0 % alcohol, and 12.0 % sugar
* sherry has a specific gravity of 0.98.
carry calculations to two significant figures for unknown values.