SOLUTION: A container is filled with 70 liters which is 40% alcohol by volume. How much of a mixture must be taken and then replaced with equal amount of water so that the resulting solution
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Question 1165932: A container is filled with 70 liters which is 40% alcohol by volume. How much of a mixture must be taken and then replaced with equal amount of water so that the resulting solution is 30% alcohol by volume?
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It is a standard and typical mixture problem.
In this site, there is a bunch of lessons, covering various types of mixture problems. See introductory lessons
- Mixture problems
- More Mixture problems
- Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions
- Word problems on mixtures for antifreeze solutions (*)
- Word problems on mixtures for alloys
- Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
Of these lessons, the closest solutions to your problem you will find in the lesson marked (*) in the list.
Read the lessons and become an expert in solution the mixture word problems.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Mixture problems".
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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
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