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Francesca uses 100 grams of lemon juice, 100 grams of sugar, and 400 grams of water to make lemonade. There are 25 calories in 100 grams of lemon juice and 386 calories in 100 grams of sugar. Water contains no calories. How many calories are in 200 grams of her lemonade?

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Solution

Francesca makes a total of 100+100+400=600100+100+400=600 grams of lemonade, and in those 600600 grams, there are 2525 calories from the lemon juice and 386386 calories from the sugar, for a total of 25+386=41125+386=411 calories per 600600 grams. We want to know how many calories there are in 200=600/3200=600/3 grams, so we just divide 411411 by 33 to get 137    (B)137\implies\boxed{(\text{B})}.

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