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Question 1027401: how many gallons of a 2% salt solution must be mixed with 100 gallons of a 8% salt solution to obtain a 3% salt solution?
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Question 1027400: it costs $900 for the 10,000 mile service on a car. If the parts were $720 and the mechanic charged $90 per hour, how many hours did the service take?
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Question 1027402: a new elementary algebra textbook sells for $85 and a used elementary algebra textbook sells for $65. How many new textbooks are sold if the receipts for 125 new and used textbooks is $9805?
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Question 1027413: A recipe for peanut butter requires 12 pounds of butter and 10 pounds of peanuts. A pound of peanuts costs four times as much as a pound of butter. If the total cost of the batch of peanut butter is $91, how much does one pound of butter cost?
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Question 1027493: 2 packs of pecans + 5 packs of cashews = $13.75.
3 packs of pecans + 4 packs of cashews = $13.45.
How much is each pack worth? You are not given the cost of either the pecans or the cashews.
Thanks, Jessica
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Question 1027525: Tickets to a local movie were sold at $5.00 for adults and $3.50 for students. If 370 tickets were sold for a total of $1415.00, how many adult tickets were sold?
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Question 1027580: A chemist has a 100 mL beaker of a 60% solution solution. Write an equation for the concentration of the solution after adding x mL of pure water.
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Question 1027761: How many liters of a 40% salt solutions must be added to a 4 liters of a 10% salt solutions to obtain 30% salt solutions?
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Question 1027765: tickets to a local movie were sold at $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for students. If 600 tickets were sold for a total of $4116, how many adults tickets were sold?
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Question 1027763: How many gallons each of 10% chloride solution and 30% chloride solution should be mixed in order to obtain 10 gallons of 25% chloride solutions?
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Question 1027760: The modern Grocery has cashews that sell for $4.50 per pound and peanuts that sell for $2.50 per pound. How much of each must Albert, the Grocer, mix to get 80 pounds of a mixture that he can sell for $3.00 per pound.?
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Question 1027758: Saver Renta a Car Agency charges $51 per day plus 20 Cents per mile to rent a certain Car. Local charges $65 per day plus 16 Cents per mile to rent the same Car. How many miles will have to be deriven for the Cost of saver's Car to equal the Cost of local's car?
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Question 1027839: how many quarts of a 20% salt solution must a chemist mix with a 40% to make 40 quarts of a 25% salt solution?
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Question 1027838: how many quarts of a 20% salt solution must a chemist mix with a 40% to make 40 quarts of a 25% salt solution?
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Question 1027852: mixing a given quantity of 30% silver alloy with a quantity of 90% silver yields 200 units of a 54% silver alloy. How many units of each alloy were used
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Question 1028168: I need to make 50 ml of a 2 percent dextrose solution from a 30 percent dextrose stock. How much diluent will I need ?

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Question 1028319: brendan mixed cola and cherry juice to make a party drink. for each 16-ounce can of cola, he used one ounce of cherry juice. if he made 17 quarts of party drink, how many cans of cola did he used, and how many ounces of cherry juice did he need?
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Question 1028277: Keiko's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Keiko $4.35 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.65 per pound. This month's blend used three times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $830.70.
How many pounds of type A coffee were used?
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Question 1028349: A coffe shop has one type of coffee that sells for $6 per pound and another that sells for $11 perpound. They wish to mix 50 pounds of the $11 coffee to get a mixture that will sell for 47 per pound. How many pounds of the $6 coffee should be used?
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Question 1028409: A jeweler has 30 oz of an alloy consisting of 60 percent gold and 40 percent silver. How much of a second alloy containing 80 percent gold and 20 percent silver must be mixed with the first alloy to obtain an alloy containing 75 percent gold and 25 percent silver?
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Question 1028436: At 3:15, how many degrees there between the two hands of a clock?....
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Question 1028434: A fire fighter has to get to a burning building as quickly as he can. There are three paths that he can take. He can take his fire engine over a large hill (5 miles) at 10 miles per hour. He can take his fire engine through a windy road (7 miles) at 9 miles per hour. Or he can drive his fire engine along a dirt road which is 8 miles at 12 miles per hour. Which way should he choose? Explain!
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Question 1028678: You need a 55% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 375 mL of a 50% alcohol mixture. You also have 80% alcohol mixture. How much of the 80% mixture will you need to add to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1028869: Please help me solve this math problem.
"Find the cost per pound of a coffee mixture made from 8 lb of coffee that costs $9.90 per pound and 12 lb of coffee that costs $5.90 per pound."
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Question 1028967: Chiaki is organizing a candy hunt for the children in her neighbourhood. She spent $102 to buy 500 large candies and 400 small candies. The ration of the price of a large candy to the price of a small candy is 7:4. Find the prices of one large and one small candy
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Question 1029071: A metal worker has several 1-kilogram bars of a metal alloy that contain 23% copper and several 1-kilogram bars that contain 79% copper. How many bars of each type of alloy should be melted and combined to create 48 kilograms of a 44% copper alloy? Set up and solve a system of equations to find the answer.

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Question 1029073: List the maximum and minimum for the following system of equations.
x is greater than or equal to 0
y is greater than or equal to 0
y is smaller than or equal to x+10
y is smaller than or equal to 2x+1
f(x)=x-2y
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Question 1029144: How many ml of an 8% saline solution and a 3% saline solution should be mixed to produce 400 ml of a 5% saline solution?
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Question 1029141: How many kg of ore containing 5% gold must be melted down with 8kg of 2% gold to produce a mixture which is 4% gold?
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Question 1029143: Joe can mow the eighteenth fairway in 4 hours. Bob can do it in 3 hours. Joe, Bob, and Tom working together can do it in an hour and twenty minutes. How long would it take Tom to do the job working alone?
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Question 1029550: How would you solve this?
24>2x-6>14
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Question 1029550: How would you solve this?
24>2x-6>14
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Question 1029550: How would you solve this?
24>2x-6>14
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Question 1029981: an experiment requires mixing a 40% acid solution with a 70% avid solution to create 150 ml of 46% acid solution. how much 40% acid solution and how much 70% acid solution should be used?

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Question 1030023: how many gallons of a 60% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 60 gallons of 20% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 50% antifreeze? use the 6 step method
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Question 1030100: A store is having a sale on jelly beans and trail mix. For 6 pounds of jelly beans and 2 pounds of trail mix, the total is $16. For 3 pounds of jelly beans and 5 pounds of trail mix, the total cost is $13. Find the cosh for each pound of jelly beans and each trail mix.
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Question 1030124: How many ounces of a 17% alcohol solution and a 40% alcohol solution must be combined to obtain 46 ounces of a 32% solution?
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Question 1030124: How many ounces of a 17% alcohol solution and a 40% alcohol solution must be combined to obtain 46 ounces of a 32% solution?
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Question 1030256: Two types of tea costing k650 per kg and k720 per kg respectively are blended in the ratio 7:3. Find the cost of 1 kg of blended tea?
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Question 1030282: I have one pound of 56% clorine, how much water would be needed to make a 12% clorine mix?
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Question 1030299: A merchant wishes to blend 200 pounds of coffee to be worth $3.20 per pound from two types of coffee; one is worth $3.00 per pound and the other is worth $3.25 per pound. How many pounds of each mixture should he use?
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Question 1030324: A silversmith has two alloys, one containing 50% silver and the other 40% silver. How much of each should be melted and combined to obtain 600 grams of an alloy containing 47% silver?
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