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Question 1012247: . Shurie has twice as much money as Mafarji. If Adnan gives Mafarji $2.50,
he will have three times as much as Shurie. How much did Shurie and
Mafarji originally have?
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Question 1012248: A rectangle is 4 cm longer than it is wide. If both the length and breadth are
increased by 1 cm, the area would be increased by 18 cm2
. Find the length
and breadth of the rectangle.
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Question 1012272: In a lab, a 30% acid solution is being mixed with a 5% acid solution to create a 10% acid solution. What is the ratio of the amount of the 30% solution to the amount of 5% solution used to create the 10% solution?

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Question 1012302: If a metal alloy contained 62% copper, 33% nickel, and 5% iron, how many grams of copper would be in 60 kg statue?
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Question 1012322: Shane has 20 ounces of a 20% salt solution. How much salt should she add to makd it a 25% solution?
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Question 1012331: Shannon bought 9 pounds of almonds for a total cost of $27. The cost per pound of cashews is 70% more than the cost of almonds. Shannon bought enough cashews that when she mixed them with the almonds the cost was $4.00 per pound. What percent of the mixture by weight was almonds?
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Question 1012424: If I buy 3 pounds of jelly beans and 8 pounds of trail mix it costs $23.00 but if i buy 5 pounds of jelly beans and 2 pounds of trail mix it costs $10.00 how much do jelly beans and trail mix cost on their own per pound?
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Question 1012486: A dealer wishes to produce 300 gallons of oil worth 40� a quart. He will mix oil that is worth 36� a quart with oil that is worth 52� a quart, and needs to figure out how many quarts of each he needs.
If x represents the number of quarts of 36 cent oil, which of the following equations could be used to solve this problem?
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Question 1012518: 2 varieties of tea of ratio 2: 5 and sells the mixture at rs 40 per kg .if the cost of two varieties be rs 45 per kg .what would be the profit percent
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Question 1012519: How much of each solution, a 30% solution and a 50% solution, would be added together to produce 10 litres of a 45% solution?
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Question 1012519: How much of each solution, a 30% solution and a 50% solution, would be added together to produce 10 litres of a 45% solution?
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Question 1012538: If you have a solution that is .25 orange juice and a solution that is 100% pure orange juice how much of each to get 17 liters that is 60% orange juice.
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Question 1012514: Company A offers a starting salary of $28,000 with a raise of $3,000 each year. Company B offers a starting salary of $36,000 with a raise of $2,000 per year. Company C offers a starting salary of $18000 a year. After how many years would the salaries for companies A and B be the same? How much of a raise would company C have to offer to equal the salaries of Companies A and B in the year in which the salaries of those two companies are the same?
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Question 1012742: One solution is 80% acid and another one is 30% acid. How much of each solution is needed to make a 150L solution that is 62% acid?
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Question 1012822: How many gallons cleaner are in x gallons of a 75% cleaner solution?
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Question 1012833: If a decade is ten years then a score will be what?
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Question 1012910: a one way subway trip costs $0.75. a monthly subway pass costs $27. write and solve an inequality to find the least number of one way rides you must take for the subway pass to be a better deal than paying for each ride.
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Question 1013095: a dam is 12.5m deep if it hold a liquid of density 1250kgm find the pressure at the base.[g=10m/s]
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Question 1013133: Suppose you have one quart of water/juice mix that is 50% juice, and you add 2 quarts of juice and 1 quart of water. What percent of the final mix is juice?
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Question 1013089: a boy pushes a bicycle pedal with a force of 65n. if the force is perpendicular to the crank of length 0.5m calculate the movement of the force exerts on the pedal about the crank
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Question 1013086: a spanner of length 0.2m is used to loosen a wheel nut of a car. if the torque produced by the spanner is 100nm what is the maximum force applied at the end to loosen the nut
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Question 1013147: Sugar contains 15 calories per teaspoon. How many calories are in 3/4 cup of sugar?
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Question 1013173: Lauren had 3 liters of water.She poured the water into 7 glasses equally.How much water was there in each glass?
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Question 1013166: A 30% salt solution is mixed with a 65% salt solution. Which of the following are not possible for the percent concentration of the resulting solution? (Select all that apply.)
10%
75%
65%
37%
30%
Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect.
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Question 1013098: a glass tube 1.5m tall is filled with liquid of density 1080kgm what pressure exerted on the base of the tube if the atmospheric pressure is 101kpa?[g=10m/s]
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Question 1013418: A lorry is loaded with two different types of boxes. If 150 of box A and 115
of box B are loaded onto the truck, its capacity of 10 tonnes is reached. If
300 of box A are loaded , then the truck can only take 30 of box B before
the capacity of 10 tonnes is reached. Find the weight of each box.
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Question 1013422: The sum of the ages of a boy and his mother is 48. If the mother is three
more than twice the boy�s age, find the difference in the ages of the boy and
his mother.
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Question 1013421: A lorry is loaded with two different types of boxes. If 150 of box A and 115
of box B are loaded onto the truck, its capacity of 10 tonnes is reached. If
300 of box A are loaded , then the truck can only take 30 of box B before
the capacity of 10 tonnes is reached. Find the weight of each box.
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Question 1013601: A lab technician mixed a 650 ml solution of water and alcohol. If 3% of the solution is alcohol, how many milliters of alcohol were used, and how many milliters of water were used?
The amount of water used was ___ ml. (Type an integer or decimal.)
The amount of alcohol used was ___ ml. (Type an integer or decimal.)
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Question 1013544: A Chemist has 100g of 25% acid solution. How much of these solution he needs to drain and replaced with 70% acid solution to obtain 100g of 60% acid solution
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Question 1013680: Doreen Schmidt is a chemist. She needs to prepare 32 ounces of a 9% hydrochloric acid solution. Find the amount of 16% solution and the amount of 8% solution she should mix to get this solution
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Question 1013882: How many gallons of 5% acid solution must be mixed with 5 gallons of a 10% solution to obtain a 7% solution
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Question 1013775: A chemist has three different acid solutions. The first acid solution contains 20% acid, the second contains 40% and the third contains 80%. He wants to use all three solutions to obtain a mixture of 90 liters containing 60% acid, using 3 times as much of the 80% solution as the 40% solution. How many liters of each solution should be used?

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Question 1013959: 9 ounces of mixed nuts containing 39% peanuts were mixed with 16 ounces of another kind of mixed nuts that contain 64% Peanuts peanuts are what percent of the new mixture My email is bjlo66@msn.com
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Question 1014022: a chemical reaction requires that 4/5 gram of salt be added to 7 liters of water. how many grams of salt should be added to 12 liters of water
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Question 1014146: mr.henson needs 400 grams of a 45% solution of alcohol by mixing 35% and 75% solutions. How much of each does he need?
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