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Question 955501: to make a certain drink, you need to mix 200ml of concentrate with 1,2l of water. determine the ratio of concentrate to water.how much you need if you have to make up a total of 14l of this drink

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Question 955906: how many right answers would i need to have in order to get a 70% on 150 questions
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Question 955998: An antiseptic needs to be diluted with water. If the solution should be 15% antiseptic, how much antiseptic is required for 2.5 litres of the solution?
= Answer L

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Question 956136: How many liters of 50% alcohol solution and 20% alcohol solution must be mixed to obtain 18 liters of 30% alcohol? Show your work.
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Question 956211: A chemist has two solutions. One is 40% alcohol, and the other is pure alcohol. How much of each solution should be mixed together to make 1.6 liters of a solution that is 52% alcohol?

I have tried x + y= 1.6 x=1.6-y
Also using grids.
Came up with
0.40(1.6-y) + 1.00y= .832
0.64-0.40y + 1.00y =.832
0.64 +0.6y= .832
0.6y= 1.3
y=2.16

I feel I am doing something very wrong. Help is greatly appreciated.
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Question 956257: jerome mixes a solution that is 8% alcohol with a solution that is 14% alcohol to make 600 milliliters of a solution that is 12% alcohol. How many milliliters of each solution does he mix together?
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Question 956457: The sports club committee makes 14 litres of a lemon drink for the refreshments. They mix lemon concentrate and water in the ratio 2:5. How many litres of lemon concentrate do they use?
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Question 956536: If you combine 25 ml of water with 25 ml of rubbing alcohol the total volume is 49 ml.
How does the particle model explain this?
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Question 956491: a chemist needs to obtain 100 millimeters of 38% acid solutions. he has two acid solutions available to him. One is a 77% acid solution and the other one is 12% acid solution. how many millimeters of each does he need to use to obtain the desired results

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Question 956660: farah invested her money in a bank that has a semi annual rate of 40% if she invested 10000 what would it be its value after 10 years
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Question 956671: You are an ice cream maker and decided ice cream w/tih 9% butterfat is the best. How many gallons of ice cream with 5% butterfat should be mixed with ice cream that is 15% butterfat to make 200 gallons of desired blend?
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Question 956739: A merchant sells one type of tea for $5.50 per pound and a second type for $4.25 per pound. She wishes to mix the tea to form a 60 lb mixture that will sell for $4.55 per pound. How many pounds of each type of tea should be used in the mixture?
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Question 957109: The recipe asks for 0.8 kg of apples, 0.6kg of water, and 90 mg of salt. When you cook the ingredients together it turns into a thick sauce. How many grams of Apple sauce do you have? Remember that matter is conserved.
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Question 957139: if a 10 ft tall statue casts a 20 ft long shadow, then how tall is a tent that casts a 10 ft shadow?

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Question 957245: A biologist has a 30% salt solution and a 60% salt soution. How many gallons of the 30% salt solution should be added to the 60% salt solution to make 24 gallons of a 40% salt solution?
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Question 957404: What quantity of a 65% acid solution must be mixed with a 35% solution to produce 400 mL of a 50% solution?
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Question 957523: How much 20% alcohol is required to make 1L of 10% alcohol?
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Question 957737: A coffee distributor needs to mix a(n) House coffee blend that normally sells for $9.40 per pound with a Breakfast coffee blend that normally sells for $10.20 per pound to create 10 pounds of a coffee that can sell for $9.96 per pound. How many pounds of each kind of coffee should they mix?

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Question 957736: You need 300 mL of a 40% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 35% alcohol mixture and a 65% alcohol mixture. How much of each mixture will you need to obtain the desired solution?

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Question 957722: How many gallons of a 10% salt solution must be added to a 15 gallons of a 20% salt solution to obtain a 16% solution?
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Question 957863: A 6000 Litre tank has a 25% saltwater mixture. How much water is needed to make the mixture 23%?
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Question 957927: in a mixture of concrete, there are two lb of cement mix for each pound of gravel. if the mixture contains a total of 45 lb of thes two ingredients how many pounds of gravel are there?
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Question 957966: A candy store sells candy in bulk. In one bin are sour worms which sells for $2.20 per pound and a second bin are sour bears which sell for $2.75 per pound. How much of each type should be mixed to obtain a 3 pound mixture that sells for $2.40 per pound?
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Question 958086: A merchant wants to mix peanuts worth $3 per pound with jelly beans worth $1.50 per pound to make 30 pounds of a mixture worth $2.30 per pound. How many pounds of each should he use?

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Question 958157: a 15 gallon aquarium contain 60 litters of 3% salt water solution. If everyday, 500ml of plain water was evaporated, How many days is needed to have 5% saltwater solution?
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Question 958213: Write an equation to answer this question: how many mL of each should be used to make 140mL of a 35% acid solution. Let x represent the number of mL of the 60% acid solution.
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Question 958182: Emily jarred 10 liters of jam after 5 days. How many days did Emily spend making jam if she jarred 18 liters of jam? Solve using unit rates.
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Question 958179: How much 9% HC1 must be mixed with 4% HC1 to produce 50mL of 6% HC1?
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Question 958253: 15L of a 10% solution of disinfectant was created by mixing a 3% solution with a 20% solution. How much of the 3% solution was used?
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Question 958778: You are making a drink that requires 12 ounces of a 33-proof whiskey. Unfortunately, all you have on hand are 24-proof and 36-proof whiskey. How much of each type of whiskey do you need to mix to create 12 ounces of a 33-proof whiskey? The proof of an alcoholic beverage indicates the percentage of alcohol (ethanol) it contains. A 24-proof whiskey, for example, contains 48 percent alcohol by volume. You need to mix ? oz. of 24-proof with ? oz. of 36-proof to produce 12 ounces of 33-proof whiskey.
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Question 958789: how much water must be added to 80 ml of 30% alcohol solution to dilute it to a 30% alcohol solution
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Question 958833: Jennifer needs to make a solution that is 10% hydrochloric acid. If she must use all of the 50 mL of 20% hydrochloric acid she started with, then how much water needs to be mixed with the original solution?

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Question 958871: how much water should be added to 28 milliliters of 17% alcohol solution to reduce the concentration to 14%?
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Question 958871: how much water should be added to 28 milliliters of 17% alcohol solution to reduce the concentration to 14%?
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Question 958961: I cant figure out how to work this problem out and how they came up with the answer of 60lbs. A merchant has coffee worth $40 a pound that she wishes to mix with 20 pounds of coffee worth $80 a pound to get a mixture that can be sold for $50 a pound. How many pounds of the $40 coffee should be used?
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Question 959054: How many gallons of a 70% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 70 gallons of 10% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 60% antifreeze?
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Question 959079: Inmixture of concrete, there are three lbs of content mix for each pound of gravel. If the mixture contains total of 184ibs of these two ingredients, how many pounds of gravel are there
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Question 959142: If the area of arectangle is six x squared minus eight what are the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 959142: If the area of arectangle is six x squared minus eight what are the dimensions of the rectangle
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Question 959239: A total of 15 liters of 16% disenfectant solution is obtained by mixing 20% and 14% solutions. How many liters of those solutions should be used?
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Question 959254: A biologist has two brine solutions, one containing 2% salt and another containing 8% salt. How many liters of each solution should the biologist mix to obtain 10 liters of a solution that contains 5.6% salt?
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Question 959354: 1.How many ounces of a 2% acid solution should be mixed with a 4% acid solution to produce 20 ounces of a 3.6% acid solution?

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