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Question 1014829: a nut store normally sells cashews for $9 per pound and almonds for $3.50 per pound. but at the end of the month the almonds had not sold well so in order to sell 60 pounds of almonds with some cashews and sell the mixture for $7.50 per pound. how many pounds of cashews should be mixed with almonds to ensure no change in the profit?
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Question 1036515: Every classroom in a school contains 32 students. How many students would 5 classroom hold

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Question 1036612: Suppose that a chemist is mixing two acid solutions, one of 15% concentration and the other of 25% concentration. Which of the following concentrations could not be obtained?
17%, 20%, 23%, 29%
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Question 1036638: pharmacist has 600ml of solution that is 50 % active ingredient. how much pure water should be added to the solution to get a solution that is 30% active ingredient
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Question 1036642: You need a 70% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 30 mL of a 30% alcohol mixture. You also have 75% alcohol mixture. How much of the 75% mixture will you need to add to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1036653: How much pure antifreeze must be added to 12 gallons of 10% antifreeze to make a 40% antifreeze solution?
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Question 1036653: How much pure antifreeze must be added to 12 gallons of 10% antifreeze to make a 40% antifreeze solution?
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Question 1036653: How much pure antifreeze must be added to 12 gallons of 10% antifreeze to make a 40% antifreeze solution?
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Question 1036643: A coffee distributor needs to mix a(n) Rift Valley coffee blend that normally sells for $10.00 per pound with a Breakfast coffee blend that normally sells for $14.30 per pound to create 20 pounds of a coffee that can sell for $12.58 per pound. How many pounds of each kind of coffee should they mix?
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Question 1036644: A candy distributor needs to mix a 10% fat-content chocolate with a 40% fat-content chocolate to create 100 kilograms of a 28% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?
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Question 1036670: You need a 80% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 260 mL of a 45% alcohol mixture. How much pure alcohol will you need to add to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1036729: A candy store mixes green and red jelly beans in a barrel. The barrel contains 42 pounds of mixture. If there are three times as many pounds of green jelly beans as red jelly beans, Find the number of pounds of green jelly beans and red jelly beans in the barrel.

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Question 1036763: How much water should be added to 34mL of 18% alcohol solution to reduce the concentration to 17%?
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Question 1036775: A candy distributor needs to mix a 10% fat-content chocolate with a 50% fat-content chocolate to create 100 kilograms of a 18% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?
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Question 1036796: How many pounds of nuts selling for $12 per lb and raisins selling for $6 per lb should a person combine to obtain 60lbs of trail mix selling for $8 per lb.
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Question 1036797: Suppose that a cyclist began a 234 mile ride across the state at the western edge of the state at the same time that a car traveling toward it leaves the eastern end of the state. If the bicycle in car met after 4 1/2 hours and the car travel 31.2 mph faster than the bicycle find the average rate of each?
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Question 1037300: The local diner has decided to add red beans and rice to the menu. They will make a batch using 6 pounds of beans worth $1.30 per pound and 9 pounds of rice worth $2.75 per pound. How much will a 1 pound bowl of red beans and rice cost?

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Question 1037332: How much 12% acid must be added to 2 gallons of pure water to get a mixture that is 7% acid.
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Question 1037331: To create a chocolate blend, chocolate in two concentrations, 96% cocoa and 76% cocoa, are combined together. If 8 ounces of the 96% chocolate is used, how many ounces of the 76% chocolate must be used to obtain a 80%
chocolate blend?
If the answer is not an integer, enter it as an exact decimal.
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Question 1037352: You need a 80% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 25 mL of a 50% alcohol mixture. You also have 85% alcohol mixture. How much of the 85% mixture will you need to add to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1037557: How many liters of water should be added to 3 liters of a 70 percent alcohol solution to obtain a 50 percent solution
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Question 1037761: A home is to be built on a 61 foot 6 inches wide lot. the home is 7 feet 2 inches from the side of the lot and is 41 foot 6 inches wide. How far is the house from the other side of the lot?
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Question 1037759: a health clinic has 3 1/2 quarts and 1 gallon of antiseptic wash in inventory. how many fluid ounces of antiseptic wash do they have on hand?
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Question 1037760: an assembly line boxes nuts and bolts. One box can hold 5 1/2 pounds of nuts. and 3 pounds and 6 ounces of bolts. What is the total weight for one box?

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Question 1037765: A chemical company makes two brands of antifreeze. The first brand is
45% pure antifreeze, and the second brand is 70% pure antifreeze. In order to obtain 150 gallons of a mixture that contains 55% pure antifreeze, how many gallons of each brand of antifreeze must be used?
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Question 1037775: A chemical company makes two brands of antifreeze. The first brand is
45% pure antifreeze, and the second brand is 70% pure antifreeze. In order to obtain 150 gallons of a mixture that contains 55% pure antifreeze, how many gallons of each brand of antifreeze must be used?

First brand: ? Gallons
Second brand: ? Gallons
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Question 1037865: it takes 2 parts water and 3 parts detergent to make a solution. How much detergent will it take to make 15 gallons of solution
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Question 1037926: How to prepare 1 litres of Sodium Hypochlorite 10% solutions
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Question 1037364: Fatuma invests a total of $23,500 in two accounts paying 5% and 6% simple interest, respectively. How much was invested in each account if, after one year, the total interest was $1,255.00
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Question 1038049: If the sum of my nieces and nephews equals 12, and their
product equals 35, and I have more nephews than nieces.
How many nephews and how many nieces is this book
dedicated to?
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Question 1038233: The nut Case has 20 pounds of mixed peanuts and hickory nuts which sells for 8.40 per pond . Peanuts sell for 8.00 per pound, and hickory nuts sell for 9.00 per pound. How many pounds of hickory nuts are in the mix?

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Question 1038282: There are 4 positions to be filled. There are 12 applicants.How many ways can this be filled
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Question 1038311: A chemical company makes two brands of antifreeze. The first brand is
65%
pure antifreeze, and the second brand is
90%
pure antifreeze. In order to obtain
180
gallons of a mixture that contains
75%
pure antifreeze, how many gallons of each brand of antifreeze must be used?
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Question 1038328: a company sells seeds in either 3-pounds or 20-pound bags.One day, the company sells 84 bags with a total weight of 660 pounds. How many 3-pound bags did the company sell? What is the equation used to solve these type of problems.
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Question 1038331: Mike mixed 11 oz of soil containing 10% clay with 5 oz of soil with 9% clay. What is the clay content in the mixture?
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Question 1038340: Sally dumped 13 lbs of a bag of apples with 59% red apples, into a bag of 7 lbs which contained 49% red apples. What is the new percent of red apples?
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Question 1038341: Sally needs 9lb of metal with 53% silver. If Sally combines one metal with 22% silver, and another with 79% silver, how much of each metal does Sally need?
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Question 1038405: a chemist wishes to mix a solution that is 4% acid. She has on hand 8 liters of a 2% acid solution and wishes to add some 8% acid solution to obtain the desired 4% acid solution. How much 8% acid solution should she add
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Question 1038404: A class was surveyed to find out what snacks the students liked. The results showed that 18 students liked popcorn, 4 liked popcorn and ice cream only, 5 thought that cold snacks were best so the like only ice cream, 6 said ice cream made their teeth hurt so they liked only almond and popcorn, 14 liked only one kind of snack, 9 liked ice cream and almonds, twice as many liked all 3, liked only ice cream and almond
a) how many students liked a three snacks?
b) how many liked only almonds?
c) how many students were in the class?
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Question 1038623: Suppose we have two solutions of sulphuric acid in water. The first is 40% strong and second is 60% strong. We mix the two solutions, add 5 kg of pure water and obtain a 20% solution. If instead of adding 5 kg of pure water, we were to add 5 kg of an 80% solution, we would get a 70% solution. How much of the 40% solution and 60% solution do we have?
a) 2 kg : 1 kg b) 1kg : 2 kg c) 2 kg : 3 kg d) 3 kg : 1kg
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Question 1038701: How many pounds of nuts selling for $12 per lb and raisins selling for $6 per lb should a person combine to obtain 120 lb of a trail mix selling for $8 per lb?
The person would need (__) lb of nuts selling for $12 and (___) lb of raisins selling for $6.
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Question 1038734: Frank made 144 pounds of coffee for a total cost of $666.00. Coffee A cost $5.45 per pound, and coffee B cost $4.10 per pound. How much of each coffee did Frank use?
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