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Question 901743: how much water should be added to 48 ounces of 8% salt solution to make a 3% salt solution

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Question 901727: David took his boat out for an all day ocean fishing trip. It took him five hours to reach his favorite fishing spot traveling with the current. The return trip to the harbor, however took him seven hours since he was going against the current. Assuming he set his cruise control to the same speed going out and coming back to the harbor and the speed of the ocean current that day was 5 miles per hour, at what speed was his boat set that day?

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Question 901759: a chemist has two saline solutions. one is 2% salt, and the other is 6% salt. how much of each solution should be mixed to make 2 liters of saline solution that is 3% salt?
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Question 901719: a farmer mixes wheat based feed (12% protein) with a corn based feed (7% protein) to make 610 pounds of a 10.5% protein feed. How many pounds of each type of feed does he use to make the mixture
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Question 901863: How many liters of 60% acid solution must be mixed with a 30% acid solution to get 240 L of a 50% acid solution?
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Question 901940: How many liters of a 20% acid solution must be mixed with a 40% acid solution in order to obtain 30L of a 30% solution?
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Question 902011: A certain contact lens solution is preserved with 0.1% sorbic acid. If a company has made a mistake and produced a solution containing 3% sorbic acid, how much pure water must be added to 300 liters of the solution to make the correct percentages in the solution?
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Question 902038: In the lab, Pablo has two solutions that contain alcohol and is mixing them with each other. He uses
100
milliliters less of Solution A than Solution B. Solution A is
18%
alcohol and Solution B is
14%
alcohol. How many milliliters of Solution B does he use, if the resulting mixture has
110
milliliters of pure alcohol?
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Question 901957: Ten pounds of lemon drops are to be mixed with cherry chews to make a mixture that will sell for $1.80 per pound. How much of the more expensive candy should be used? See the table
Candy Price per pound
Peppermint patties $1.35
Lemon drops $1.60
Licorice lumps $1.75
Cherry chews $1.90
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Question 902071: You need a 55% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 45 mL of a 30% alcohol mixture. You also have 60% alcohol mixture. How much of the 60% mixture will you need to add to obtain the desired solution

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Question 902120: how many liters of alcohol must be added to 40 liters of a mixture which is 65% alcohol to obtain 80% alcohol
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Question 902257: How many gallons of 20% anitfreeze should be mixed with 10 gallons of 76% antifreeze to obtain a 55% antifreeze mixture
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Question 902248: Container A has 200 L of water, and is being filled at a rate of 6 litters per minute. Container B has 500 L of water and is being drained at 6 litters per minute. How many minutes, will it take for the two containers to have the same amout if water? and how do I figure that out?
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Question 902315: How many liters of a 85% acid solution must be added to 12 liters of a 25% acid solution to produce a 49% acid solution?
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Question 902315: How many liters of a 85% acid solution must be added to 12 liters of a 25% acid solution to produce a 49% acid solution?
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Question 902315: How many liters of a 85% acid solution must be added to 12 liters of a 25% acid solution to produce a 49% acid solution?
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Question 902350: A scientist has two solutions, which she has labeled Solution A and Solution B. Each contains salt. She knows that Solution A is
45%
salt and Solution B is
70%
salt. She wants to obtain
90
ounces of a mixture that is
50%
salt. How many ounces of each solution should she use?
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Question 902458: What quantity of a 65% acid solution must be mixed with a 45% solution to produce 400 mL of a 50% solution?
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Question 902516: Write an equation in terms of x that determines how much water should be added to x liters of an 18% solution to reduce the concentration to 15%?
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Question 902524: A coffee merchant combines coffee that costs $6 per pound with coffee that costs $3.50 per pound. How many pounds of each should be used to make 25 lb of a blend costing $5.25 per pound
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Question 902532: A hospital staff mixed a 75% disinfectant solution with a 25% disinfectant solution. How many liters of each were used to make 20L of a 40% disinfectant solution?
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Question 902536: A chemist mixes an 11% acetic solution with a 6% acetic acid solution. How many mililiters of each should the chemist use to make 600 ml of a solution that is 8% acetic acid

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Question 902438: How many liters of an 8% solution of salt should be added to a 20% solution in order to obtain 408 liters of a 15% solution?
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Question 902384: Please help me solve this word problem:
We need a mixture of gold raisins that sell for $4.50 per pound and dark raisins that sell for $2.30
per pound. How many pounds of each type of raisin should be used if 50.6 pounds of the mix is
to sell for $3.50 per pound?
I'm having trouble figuring out the equation.
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Question 902388: 16 lb of Brand M Cinnamon was made by
combining 12 lb of Indonesian cinnamon
which costs $19/lb with 4 lb of Thai
cinnamon which costs $11/lb. Find the cost
per lb of the mixture.

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Question 902302: If peanuts cost 20 cents a pound and almonds cost 70 cents a pound what would mixed nuts cost if they were 60 percent peanuts and 40 percent almonds

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Question 902272: how many gallons of 30% antifreeze should be mixed with 10 gallons of 75% anitfreeze to obtain a 55% antifreeze mixture
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Question 902153: Jacque has 3 L of a 50% antifreeze mixture. How much is 75% mixture should be added to get a mixture that is 60% antifreeze?
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Question 902157: an alloy of gold and copper weighing 100 gm contains 97 gm of gold. how much gold should be added to the alloy to increase the percentage og gold to 98?
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Question 902553: how many pounds of coffee worth $1.55 a pound should be mixed with 20 pounds of worth $1.90 a pound to produce a mixture worth $1.65 a pound?

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Question 902550: what quantity of water should be taken out from a solution to convert 495litres of 25% concentrated acidic liquid into a 45% concentrated acidic liquid?
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Question 902590: The manager of a farmer's market has 400 lb of grain that costs $1.50 per pound. How many pounds of meal costing $0.80 per pound should be mixed with the 400 lb of grain to produce a mixture that costs $1.36 per pound?

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Question 902604: A friend of mine is downloading songs. She downloads regular definition songs at 2.9 megabytes and high definition songs at 4.1 megabytes. If she downloaded 1,445 total songs at a total of 5,145 megabytes, how many high definition songs did she download?
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Question 902646: A mixture containing 11 % salt is to be mixed with 4 ounces of a mixture that is 20 % salt, in order to obtain a solution that is 17 % salt. How much of the first solution must be used
I do not know how to set this up. Can you help me please?
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Question 902722: 110 gallons of a solution is 5% alcohol, How many gallons of water must be removed in order to have a solution of 8% alcohol
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Question 902758: how many liters of a 10% acid solution must be mixed with a 50% acid solution in order to obtain 15 liters of a 30% solution?
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Question 902845: I don't quit understand how to set up this problem, so if I could at least get some help with that, that'd be great.
PROBLEM: A merchant blends tea that sells for $5.35 a pound with tea that sells for $2.85 a pound to produce 50 lb of a mixture that sells for $3.90 a pound. How many pounds of each type of tea does the merchant use in the blend?
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Question 902895: how many pounds of almonds selling for $3 per pound should be mixed with 7 pounds of peanuts selling for $1.20 per pound to obtain a mixture worth $1.74 per pound
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Question 902941: how many quarts of 5% butterfat milk and 1% butterfat milk should be mixed to yield 60 quarts of 4% butterfat milk
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Question 903031: we currently have 200 gallons of a 70% acidic solution that must be mixed with a solution of 13%acid to create a mixture of 29% acid. How much of the 13% acid do we need to create of solution 29% acid?
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