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Question 1014127: One solution contains 2 parts salt to 8 parts water, and another contains 3 parts salt to 5 parts water. How much of each should be mixed together in order to obtain 280 quarts of a solution that is 3 parts salt to 7 parts water?

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Question 1014128: How much of a spice that is 30% salt should be added to 175 ounces of a spice that is 65% salt in order to make a spice that is 50% salt?
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Question 1014182: How much water must be evaporated from a 20 liter 32% if the desired concentration is 50%?
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Question 1014181: how much water must be added to 25 gallons of 75% mango juice to reduce the concentration to 50%?
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Question 1014224: if a-1,a+1.b-2,b+2 are in proportion then.find a/b ,then prove that a+b/aa+b-3 =3a/5a-b-3
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Question 1014292: If we put on road every 12km from some light distance between beginning each 2 consecutive pole is 1/2 km. What is the number of poles ?
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Question 1014291: Side of square increase by 10%. Area of it increase by....%
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Question 1014438: a metalworker has meal alloy that is 15% copper and another alloy that is 60% copper. how many kilograms of each alloy should the metalworker combine to create 100 kg of a 42% copper. the metalworker should use ? kilograms of the metal alloy that is 15% copper and ? kilograms of the 60% copper
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Question 1014537: Out of every 154 containers of juice bought in a grocery store 40 are orange juice what fraction of juice purchased is orange juice
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Question 1014539: Write 117 as a product of prime factors
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Question 1014549: Out of every 480 containers of juice bought in a grocery store 145 are orange juice what fraction of juice purrchased is orange juice
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Question 1014604: A metalworker has a metal alloy that is 20% copper and another alloy that is 60% copper. How many kilograms of each alloy should the metal worker combine to create 80kg of a 44% copper alloy?
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Question 1014608: A bottle of Charlie's favorite brand of orange juice has 7 servings.Each serving is 240 ml

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Question 1014608: A bottle of Charlie's favorite brand of orange juice has 7 servings.Each serving is 240 ml

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Question 1014608: A bottle of Charlie's favorite brand of orange juice has 7 servings.Each serving is 240 ml

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Question 1014728: Assuming a bucket of sand weighs 6.4 tons and a bucket of salt weighs 4.5 tons how much would the salt weigh in one bucket of an 8 part sand 1 part salt mixture?
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Question 1013088: a bus of total weight 20000n is packed 5m from one end of a bridge of uniform weight 60000n. if the length of the bridge is 20m calculate the reaction at the supports.
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Question 1014807: the manager of a store that specializes in selling tea decides to experiment with a new blend. she will mix Earl Grey tea that sells for $5 per pound with some Orange Pekoe tea that sells for $3 per point to get 100 pounds of the new blend. the selling price of the new blend is to be $4.50 per pound, and there is to be no difference in revenue from selling the new blend versus selling the other types. how many pounds of Earl Grey tea and Orange Pekoe tea are required?
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Question 1014810: A coffee manufacturer wants to market a new blend of coffee that sells for $3.90 per pound by mixing two coffees that sell for $2.75 and $5 per pound, respectively. what amount of each coffee should be blended to obtain the desired mixture? (hint: Assume that the total weight of the desired blend is 100 pounds)
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Question 1014909: There were 423 people riding the train. 273 more people got on the train, and 93 got off at the next station. At the third station half of all the people got off the train. How many people are left on the train?
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Question 1015032: 3 ml of a 66% acid solution was mixed with 8 ml of water. Find the concentration of the new mixture.
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Question 1015133: complete the series B+5,D-10, I+15?
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Question 1015122: 40 adults and 26 went to see a movie on the opening screening and the revenue for the showing was $486.70. The next showing 20 adults and 31 kids went to see the same movie and the revenue $332.45. How much was an adult ticket and how much was a kid ticket?

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Question 1015325: If the area of a square has increased by a factor of 9, by how much has each side increased?
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Question 1015387: a manufactu have 600l of 12% acid solution how many liters of 30% solution must be added to it so that acid content in the resulting mixture will be maximum then 15% nd less then 18%
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Question 1015493: sarah needs 375 grams flour to bake a cake . the flour is sold in bags of 1kilograms determine how many kilograms of flour she must buy if she wants to bake nine cakes

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Question 1015545: A dealer has some hard candy worth $2 a pound and some worth $3 a pound. he wishes to make a mixture of 80 pounds that he can sell for $2.20 a pound. how many pounds of each kind should he use?
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Question 1015563: Kiran drove from Tortula to Cactus, a distance of 240 mi. She increased her speed by 8 mi/h for the 392 mi trip from Cactus to Dry Junction. If the total trip took 12 h, what was her speed from Tortula to Cactus?
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Question 1015655: How many liters of 20% sliver must be added to 80 liters of 50% sliver to make an alloy that is 40% sliver ?
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Question 1015654: how many liters of 20% silver must added to 80 liters of 50% silver to make an alloy that is 40% silver?
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Question 1015663: Scott wants to make a 31% saline solution. He has already poured 1 ml of a 82% saline solution into a beaker. How many ml of a 14% saline solution must he add to this to create the desired mixture? Need the equation
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Question 1015670: Cadence has $12,000 to invest. She can invest in bonds that pay 10% interest and
CDs that pay 6% interest. She wishes to invest some both ways. How much does she invest in each if she earns $1070 interest in one year? Need equation please.
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Question 1015686: How many L of a 65% sugar solution must be mixed with 9 L of a 85% sugar solution to make a 77% solution?
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Question 1015689: Joe created a metal containing 40% platinum by combining two other metals. One of these other metals weighed 12 lb. and contained 45% platinum. If the other weighed 3 lb. then what percent of it was platinum?
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Question 1015700: 9 ml of a 20% alcohol was mixed with 6 ml of pure water. Find the concentration of the new mixture.
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Question 1015709: 12 gal. of a saline solution was mixed with 3 gal. of a 30% saline solution to make a 38% saline solution. Find the percent concentration of the first solution.
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Question 1015703: How much clay do you need to add to 8m^3 of soil with 30% clay in order to make a soil with 60%?
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Question 1015703: How much clay do you need to add to 8m^3 of soil with 30% clay in order to make a soil with 60%?
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Question 1015692: 12 gal. of a saline solution was mixed with 3 gal. of a 30% saline solution to make a 38% saline solution. Find the percent concentration of the first solution.
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Question 1015711: Candence has $5,400 to invest. She can invest in bonds that pay 7.5% interest and CDs that pay 6% interest. She wishes to invest some both ways. How much does she invest in each if she earns $384 interest in one year?
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Question 1015743: there are 6 ml of compound a used for every 5ml of compound n .if chemist wants to make 1056 ml of drug then how many ml of compound b needed?
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Question 1015812: Gave Amoseo , a nuclear physicist , needs 60 liters of a 40% acid solution . He currently has a 20% solution and a 50% solution . How many liters of each does he need to make the needed 60 liters of 40% acid solution .
Gave needs _ liters of the 20% solution
He also needs _ liters of the 50% solution .
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Question 1015898: How many quarts of pure antifreeze must be added to 6 quarts of a 20% antifreeze solution to obtain a 40% antifreeze solution?
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