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Question 977607: I have a slushy machine that requires 1 gallon of liquid to be added to it that contains a 15% sugar solution. I need to know how much sugar needs to be added to the 1 gallon of liquid in order for it to freeze properly and for me to make my own recipes.
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Question 977637: two thieves rob a jewelry store and make their getaway at 10 am, traveling at 85 mph. at noon, the police leave the store in hot pursuit of the robbers. if the police travel 105 mph, how long will it take them to catch the robbers? at what time of day does this occur? how far from the jewelry store is the arrest made?
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Question 977636: you have 70,000 to invest. part in a mutual fund paying 8% per year, the rest in an etf paying 12% per year. you must have a 9% return on the investments. how much money should you put in each investment?
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Question 977633: Businesses that sells food products need to combine ingredients in the correct amounts.They also need to determine what price to charge for the products they sell.
A company sells Apple Cherry Mix.They make large batches of the mix that can be to fill 250 bags each.Determine how many kilograms of each ingredient should be used to make one batch of apple cherry mix,and explaine how you made your decision.
IMPORTANT FACTS
ingredients in apple cherry mix(1bag)
-3/4 kilograms of dried apples
-1/2 kilograms of dried cherries
-1/4 kilograms of walnuts
COST OF INGREDIENTS
-Dried apples:70.00 pesos per kilograms
-Dried cherries:180.00 pesos per kilograms
-walnuts:160.00 pesos per kilograms.
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Question 977852: amy needs to male 10 L of 42% sulphuric acid solution. in the supply room, she finds bottles of 30% sulphuric acid solution and 60% sulphuric acid solution. what volume of each solution should she mix in order to make the 42% solution?
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Question 978030: how many liters of pure alkali must be added to 10 L of water to be able to produce a solution that is 75% alkali?
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Question 978187: Two bags had 50kg each. After taking out 3 times as much sugar from bag A as bag B, bag A had half as much sugar left as bag b. How much sugar is left in each bag?
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Question 978188: Two bags had 50kg each. After taking out 3 times as much sugar from bag A as bag B, bag A had half as much sugar left as bag B. How much sugar is left in each bag?
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Question 978399: Two hundred liters of a liquid that contains 45% acid is mixed with 300 liters of another liquid. The resulting liquid is 21% acid. Find the percent of acid in the 300 liters liquid.
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Question 978500: A silversmith has two alloys, one containing 50% silver and the other 30% silver. How much of each should be melted and combined to obtain 400 grams of an alloy containing 42% silver?

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Question 978494: A chemist has liquid fertilizer solutions that are 20% and 60% nitrogen. How many gallons of each of these solutions should the chemist mix to obtain 250 gallons of solution that is 30% nitrogen?
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Question 978609: how much money in naira will it cost me to make 60litres of oil paint?
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Question 978701: how many pints of disinfectant that is 74% alcohol must be mixed with 5 pints of one that is 90% alcohol to obtain a disinfectant that contains 84% alcohol?
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Question 978777: A family has two cars. The first car has a fuel efficiency of
30 miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of
35 miles per gallon of gas. During one particular week, the two cars went a combined total of 1675 miles, for a total gas consumption of 50 gallons. How many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?
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Question 978928: Which is cheaper -1 gallon for $12.50 or 84 fluid ounces for $22?
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Question 979028: We have a 40% solution and we want 75 liters of a 15% acid solution. How much water should we put into the acid solution to do this?
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Question 979010: To make a gallon of punch a restaurant uses 1 lb. of sugar, 1 qt of orange juice, and 3 qts of soda water. Sugar costs $1.25 for a 5 lb. bag, orange juice is $2.00 a gallon, and soda water is $1.00 a gallon. They sell the punch for .50 per glass, and get 16 glasses from a gallon. How much profit from the punch did they make in a week they sold 12 gallons?
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Question 979022: How many milliliters of water must be added to 240 milliliters of a 25% sulfuric acid solution to reduce the percentage of sulfuric acid in the new solution to 10%?
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Question 979390: How much of a 20% protein food should be mixed with 100 lbs of a 12% protein food to get 18 % protein food?
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Question 979441: 1. a farmer bought 85 kg of fertilizer in 12 bags. some are 5 kg bag. the rest are 10 kg bags. how many 5 kg bags did he buy?
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Question 979445: we sell our emulsified product for $400 per ton. The product is 36% water and the water is free. What revenue are we actually making on the product and what is the calculation that can be used as we very the water content?
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Question 979551: A chemist mixed 18ml of 10% sulfuric acid with water to produce a mixture of 5%. How much water was mixed with the acid?
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Question 979646: A dairy farmer wants to mix a 70% protein supplement and a standard 20% protein ration to make 1100 pounds of a high-grade 50% protein ration. How may pounds of each should he use?
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Question 979947: A radio station's signal has a radius of 100 miles. If you drive at a constant speed of 40 miles an hour, nonstop, directly across the diameter of the signal, how long can you listen to the station before the signal fades?
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Question 979948: George saves 18% of his total gross weekly earnings from his 2 part-time jobs. He earns $6.25 per hour from one part-time job and $7.50 per hour from the other part-time job. George works a total of 40 hours between the two jobs each week. What additional information is needed to determine the amount of his earnings he saves each week?
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Question 979983: how many pounds of a 35 percent acid solution and how many pounds of a 14 percent acid solution should be combined so that 50 pounds of a 20 percent acid solution are obtained?
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Question 980101: 150Kg of wheat contained 10% of low quality wheat. What quantity of good quality wheat should be added so that the percentage of low quality wheat becomes 5% ?
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Question 357005: A nut mix contains 10% of peanuts and 90% of cashews. It costs 5% more than pure
peanuts. Are cashews more expensive than peanuts? By how much?
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Question 980160: a shopkeeper sells better quality of oil at 150 per litre . if he mixes some lower quality of oil and reduce the price to 120 per litre in what ratio does he mix two quality of oil ??
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Question 980225: Thirty(30)cows were found to produce 650kg of manure containing 10%Nitrogen in one week (7days). You are required to help traditional smallholder farmers on their application requirement for 2hactares of land planted with maize. how long will it take for the farmers to achieve 100kg of Nitrogen if they have 50 cows?

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Question 980555: alloy X contains 20% of zinc and alloy Y contains 40% zinc if a new alloy Z is made by mixing alloy X and alloy Z and proportion of X and Y is 2:1 what is the concentration of zinc in the new alloy Z.
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Question 980697: how many ml of sugar are in a 60ml bottle containing 80% sugar by volume

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Question 980797: A combination lock uses three integers in the combination, and the dial is numbered with integers 0,1,2, and 3. If consecutive numbers in the combination cannot be the same, how many possible combinations are there?
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Question 980800: There are 4! (or 24) "words" that can be formed using each of the letters a.b.c. and d once. If these "words" are alphabetized, which one is 17th?
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Question 980802: A large cube is painted red and then cut into 1000 congruent small cubes. How many of these small cube are painted red on at least two faces?
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Question 980804: How many distinct nonzero integers can be represented as the difference of two numbers in the set {1,3,5,7,9,11,13} ?
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Question 980795: The counting numbers beginning with 101 and ending with 200 are listed. How many of the numbers have a 6 as a digit?
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Question 980787: Kacey is picking out jewelry to wear for school. She has 10 rings, 4 bracelets, and 4 necklaces. How many jewelry combinations are possible if she is going to wear 1 ring, 1 bracelets , and 2 necklaces?
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Question 980792: A teacher surveys her class of 27 students to learn how many enjoy playing the video game Mario Kart 7 (MK7) and its newer version Mario Kart 8 (MK8). She finds that 7 students play only version 7 and that 5 students play only the newer version. If twice as many students play both versions as those that play neither version, how many students play Mario Kart 7?
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Question 980794: How many 3-digit numbers have the units digit larger than the tens digit?
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Question 980948: Pine Lane Middle School's student council has 10 boys and 8 girls serving as representatives. A subcommittee containing 3 boys and 3 girls is formed to organize a student dance. How many different subcommittees can be formed?

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Question 980945: A partition of a positive integer n is any way of writing n as a sum of one or more positive integers, in which we don't care about the order of the numbers in the sum. For example, the number 4 can be written as a sum of one or more positive integers ( which we don't care about the order of the numbers in the sum ) in exactly five ways:
4, 3+1, 2+2, 2+1+1, 1+1+1+1
So 4 has five partitions.
What is the number of partitions of the number 7?
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Question 980936: How many distinct nonzero integers can be represented as the difference of two numbers in the set {1,3,5,7,9,11,13} ?
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