SOLUTION: two bottles are filled with an alcahol solution. the first bottle’s alchohol to water ratio is 3:1 the second alchahol to water ratio is 4:1 you mix the liquids in the bottles to

Question 1164168: two bottles are filled with an alcahol solution. the first bottle’s alchohol to water ratio is 3:1 the second alchahol to water ratio is 4:1 you mix the liquids in the bottles together, what is the alchahol to water ratio now?
Answer by ikleyn(52832) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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As the problem is worded, printed, posted and presented, it may have many different solutions/answers,

depending on relative size/volume of the bottles.

So, accurately speaking, the problem is posed incorrectly.

To be accurate, the problem MUST SAY that the bottles are identical and have the same volume;
or, alternatively, the problem must specify the RATIO of the bottles volumes.

Without it, the problem is a FAKE.

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