No Idea How I Passed High School Math

[lirruping]

Word problems--I've heard some people find these fun. I just don't know any and I seem to be cognitively impaired. I'm looking for a formula to solve the following sort of problem:

I have Apricot and Peach each already mixed at 30% in base, i.e., as juice with 30% total flavoring. (No, I don't vape it like that). I'd like to combine them together and with unflavored nic base to get the same results as if I mixed:

1.3% Apricot
2.6% Peach

as a regular DIY recipe, meaning, with the above quantities as percentages of the whole. Can some kindly smart person give me the concrete solution (how much 30% Peach should I mix with how much 30% Apricot--and how much base should I add to those) in order to arrive at the above recipe?

Famous last words: "I'm never going to need this in real life."

 

[pulsevape]

yeah I had a little trouble with math as well.....here is a simple way to remeber this

 

[lirruping]

My hero. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

 

[Mike H.]

So you're wanting to break a 30 percent flavor mixture into smaller parts as listed... 1.3% apricot and 2.6% peach?

My way of doing that would have to consist of breaking one ML of flavor down into 4ths..So 1ml of 30% is now 15 percent mixed with .5ml VG or NIC...Now you have to break it down again and again untill you reach your desired percentage.

now we have 15% in one ml...break it in half again and it 7.5 percent ...7.5 broken in half is now is 3.75 percent...again its now 1.375 percent.

youve really complicated it for yourself pre mixing 30 percent....lol

 

[Mike H.]

Now considering full flavor right out of a bottle is 100 percent flavoring..It WILL take more drops to equal the desired percentages you want...so if 10 drops is 10 percent flavoring you now need 30 drops to equal the same 10 percent, if this is how youre trying to figure it out?

So see how many drops it takes to get your percentage from full flavoring and just triple it from your 30 percent mixture..should get you close.

 

[lirruping]

Mike, Oh, yes - right--and thank you very much for this! I have done them this way and it does work out alright.

I just have the idea that there is some really good way of phrasing this, like, in terms of a formula that I can just apply when I want to try recipes with all these premixes I happen to have (boring story as to why) which will make it so I don't have to actually think it through each time. Do you know what I mean?

If I can muster the ability to concentrate, I think maybe I could answer my own question... eventually. I am just hoping it comes more easily to someone else. Because, ughh.. math hard. :/

 

[lirruping]

or maybe I'm just confused again. You know, you're right. I will just triple them--that is a simple and good way. Thanks again!

 

[lirruping]

gawd, I always feel like a dumbass when I open my mouth about math. I've got that cliched girl problem.
Excuse me while I go into a shame spiral now.

 

[lirruping]

youve really complicated it for yourself pre mixing 30 percent....lol

Yes, I know. in my defense, I didn't mix them like this personally. I had the option to choose a whole bunch of free flavors mixed at any % up to 30 and because I'm so thrifty dontcha know, I decided to get the most bang for my buck |(so to speak). Instead I got a giant headache

 

[Laughmore]

This is confusing because the temptation is to convert 30% to 3.9% which hurts my brain too. I'll call your 30% premix L'PA.

Easier way to figure: You need 100% of the FA the recipe calls for, and L'PA is 30% of that. The peach/apricot ratios are locked so that won't be part of the equation - L'PA is what it is until you add more peach or apricot.

The big question: By how many times must we multiply 30 to equal 100? 100/30 = 3.333

3.9% FA (30% solution) in a 10ml batch, : 0.39ml * 3.333 = ~1.3ml. Of that 1.3ml, 70% (~0.91ml) is filler/base.

So for your recipes, you can either make a new ingredient for L'PA, or just keep the peach/apricot separate but at 2:1, and add the weight or volume together to get the "L'PA" total, then *3.333. Then subtract the base inadvertently added by L'PA from what the recipe calls for.

Easier math --- make a 33.33% dilution so you can just multiply by 3, or a 25% so you can multiply by 4, or like honey 10% and multiply by 10, etc