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Question 380090: Determine the amount of a 25% acid solution and a 80% acid solution needed to make 250 mL of a 40% acid solution.
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Question 380155: A chemist needs 12 liters of a 40% alcohol solution. She must mix a 20% solution and a 50% solution. How many liters of each well be required to obtain what she needs?
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Question 380200: one number is eight more than a second number. six times the first is 8 less than 5 times the second.
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Question 380211: A pharmacist needs 50 liters of a 60% alcohol solution. She currently has available a 20% solution and a 70% solution. How many liters of each must she use to make the 60% solution?
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Question 380207: Frank has half as many again as sally who has half again as many again as mary. Altogether they have 209.
how many has each?
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Question 380216: Explain why (square root of -64) is not a real number and why (square root of 3,-64) is a real number
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Question 380232: Use the definition of rational exponents to write the expression . simplify if possible.
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Question 380338: Education. The Mecklenberg County Public Schools stipulate that a standard school day will average at least 5 hr, excluding meal breaks. For the first four days of one school week, bad weather resulted in school days of 4 hr, 6 hr, 3 hr, and 6 hr. How long must the Friday school day be in order to average at least 5 hr for the week?
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Question 380450: How many liters of a 20% alcohol solution must be mixed with 60 L of a 70% solution to get a 50% solution?
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Question 380379: How many gallons of 50% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 100 gallons of 20% antifreeze solution to get 40% antifreeze solution?
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Question 380613: How much pure acid should be mixed with 2 gallons of a 40% acid solution in order to get a 80% acid solution?
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Question 380612: How much pure acid should be mixed with 4 gallons of a 60% acid solution in order to get a 80% acid solution?
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Question 380610: How much pure acid should be mixed with 6 gallons of a 10% acid solution in order to get a 90% acid solution?
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Question 381898: Hello tudor,
A friend ask me this and so i started helping them. However, i got 160 lb. However, it sounded a bit weird so i want to double check.
How many pounds of seed worth $1.05 per pound must be mixed with 30 pounds of seed worth $.90 per pound in order to produce a mixture to sell for $1.00 per pound?
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Question 382209: A beverage wholesaler wants to create a new punch. He will mix fruite juice worth $3 a gallon and rum worth $8 a gallon. He wants to obtain 145 gallons worth of punch worth $5 a gallon. How much of each beverage should he use?
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Question 382640: A 400 g solution is 25% salt. How much salt must be added to produce a solution that is 40% salt?
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Question 382651: How many pounds of salted nuts selling for $1.20 per pound should be mixed with 4 pounds of salted nuts selling for $2.80 per pound to obtain a mixture selling for $1.84 per pound?
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Question 382808: How much coffee costing $3 a pound should be mixed with 5 pounds of coffee costing $3.50 a pound obtain a mixture costing $3.25 a pound?
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Question 382783: How much pure antifreeze should be added to 3 gallons of a 50% antifreeze solution to produce a solution that is 60% antifreeze?
I did a table already containing the total amount at the bottom known as .6 for me but I really don't understand this question.
Thanks,
Jazlyn
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Question 383102: A store owner has two different blends of coffee. Brand A sells for $10.50 a pound and Brand B sells for $5.75 a pound. The owner wants to create a 25-pound mixture of Brand A and B to sell for $8.22 a pound. How many pounds of each blend should he use?
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Question 383116: a 14 litre solution is 25% antifreeze and 75% water, how much antifreeze should i add to make the solution 30% antifreeze?
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Question 383323: Beer A is 6% alcohol, Beer B is 2% alcohol.
how many liters of beer A should be mixed in order to get 50 liters of mixture that is 3.2% alcohol.
solution A + B = 50 liter
6%+2% = 3.2% alcohol
.06 + .02= 3.2

I am stuck on this calculation, need to get one of the variables alone...like A but am not sure where to go from this point...
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Question 383610: how much oil should be mixed with 26 gallons of gas if the recommended ratio of gasoline to oil is 50 to 1
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Question 383606: Two liters of 10% acidic solution is to be reduced to 3% by adding water. How much water should be added. Give answer to nearest tenth.
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Question 383854: how much water must evaporate to change 50 pounds of a 5% salt solution to an 8% salt solution?
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Question 383850: How much of an alloy that is 40% copper should be mixed with 500 ounces of an alloy that is 70% copper in order to get an alloy that is 60%
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Question 383890: Mary made 2L of orange juice from concentrate. she used 3 parts of water for each 1 part of concentrate. how much concentrate did she use?
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Question 383908: how many gallons of water must be added to 20 gallons of 15% salt solution if the resulting solution is to only contain 11% salt
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Question 383715: If 2 sweaters cost $28.90, how much would 9 sweaters cost? The cost is $____?
When I try solving the problem the answer that I got was $130.05! How I got the answer I add 28.90 four times plus 14.45(because that's the half of 28.90) and I got 130.05!
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Question 384201: you have 80%juice 20%water solution how much water should you add so it becomes 65% juice 35% water??
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Question 384059: Soybean meal is 16% protein and corn
meal is 9% protein. How many pounds of each should
be mixed to get a 350-lb mixture that is 12% protein?
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Question 384188: Solve: How many ml of a 70% acid solution must be added to a 30% acid solution to get 100 ml of a 40% acid solution?

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Question 384381: how many gallons of a 15% sugar solution must be mixed with 5 gallons of a 40% sugar solution to make a 30% sugar solution
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Question 384479: A chemist has 800 g of a dye solution that is 20% of its original strength. How much dye must be added to increase the strength to 50%?
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Question 383733: the carters purchase scb for 1.99 per pound and gmb for 1.39per pound if they wish to purchase 20 pounds and spend $32.00 on birdseed how many pounds of each type should they buy
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Question 384656: How much water should be added to a 72 ounces of a 10% salt solution to make a 3% salt solution?
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Question 384774: The chemistry lab at the University of Hardwoods keeps two acidic solutions on hand. One is 20% acid and the other is 35% acid. How much 20% acid solution and how much 35% acid solution should be used to prepare 25 liters of a 26% acid solution?
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Question 384814: A 30 L solution is 80% antifreeze. How much water must be added to produce a solution that is 60% antifreeze?
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Question 384807: Jane took three hours to drive to her friend's home on the weekend. Her average speed was 85km/hr for the first two hours. What was her average speed for the last hour of the trip if her average speed was 75km/hr for the whole trip?
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Question 384856: Can you please show me how to set up this problem so I can solve it:
How much water should be added to a 150ml of a 25% salt solution to make a 15% salt solution?
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Question 385056: An auto mechanic has 300mL of battery acid solution that is 60% acid. he must add water to this solution to dilute it so thst it is only 45% acid. How much water should he add?

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Question 385221: seed cost .20/oz
nuts cost .30/oz
a 42oz mixture costs $11.00
how many ounces of seeds and nuts were used in this mixture?
I do not know how to put this into an algebra problem. Thank you.
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Question 385339: a 120 ml of soysauce contains 35% soybean.find the amount of soybean in the bottle

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