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Question 1050527: Please help me solve this problem: A merchant mixed 8 lb of a cinnamon tea with 4 lb of spice tea. The 12-pound mixture cost $14. A second mixture included 12 lb of the cinnamon tea and 12 lb of the spice tea. The 24-pound mixture cost $30. Find the cost per pound of the cinnamon tea and of the spice tea.
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Question 1050654: A recipe calls for 750 grams of flour to create 10 cinnamon rolls. 1 cup is half a pound of dry ingredients. There are 2.2 kg in each pound. Rounding to one decimal place, how many cups of flour should I use?
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Question 1050792: SOLUTION: Doreen Schmidt is a chemist. she needs to prepare 28 ounces of a 8% hydrochloric acid solution. find the amount of 14% solution and the mount of 7% solution she should mix to get this solution

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Question 1050933: Thanks for helping :)
Find the volume of pure nitric acid in a(n) 16.0 ml sample of 19.0% nitric acid.
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Question 1050924: Find how many quarts of 6% buttermilk and 3% buttermilk should be mixed to yield 30 quarts of 4% buttermilk

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Question 1050985: I need to reduce a gallon of 24% muriatic acid solution down to a 4% solution,how much water will it take to do this?
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Question 1051159: a chemist needs 25 liters of a 10% alcohol solution but has only a 25% alcohol solution. how many liters each of the 25% solution and water should he mix to make the desired 25 liters of 10% solution?
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Question 1051185: A butcher combines 100 lb of hamburger that costs $2.10 per pound with 70 lb of hamburger that costs $4.65 per pound. Find the cost of the hamburger mixture.

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Question 1051136: a mixture of 27 g of salt and 46 g of baking soda is poured into 377 mL of water. what is the total mass of the mixture in g
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Question 1051341: 100- gram mixture is 15% sugar. How many grams of sugar are in the mixture?
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Question 1051338: How many liters of a 25% anti-freeze solution should be added to 5 L of a 10% solution to obtain a 15% solution
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Question 1051350: red needs 50 ml of 17% sucrose solution to do his science experiment. He needs to mix a 10% sucrose solution with some 30% sucrose solution to get the 17% solution he wants. How much of each should Fred use?
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Question 1051353: how many milliliters of a 20% acid solution should be mixed with 50 ml of an 8% acid solution to obtain an 18% acid solution
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Question 1051352: A 200- liter solution of fruit juice and water contains 10% fruit juice.How many liters of water are in the solution?
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Question 1051357: ray buys 14 gallons of gas and pays $40.60 his wife debra goes to the same gas station later that day and buys 11 gallons of the same gas how much did she spend?
That is the question I'm wondering how to set up the formula
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Question 1051506: How many liters of 80% alcohol solution and 20% alcohol solution must be mixed to obtain 3 liters of 60% alcohol solution?

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Question 1051624: An herbalist has 45 oz of herbs costing $4 per ounce. How many ounces of herbs costing $1 per ounce should be mixed with these 45 oz of herbs to produce a mixture costing $2.50 per ounce?
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Question 1051610: a merchant has coffee worth $30 a pound that she wishes to mix with 30 pounds of coffee worth $70 a pound to get a mixture that can be sold for $30 a pound. how many pounds of the
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Question 1051729: Y is a two digit prime
Y+3 is a perfect Square
Y+6 is the next greater two digit prime
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Question 1051796: A mixture of 15% disinfectant solution is to be made from 13% and 18% disinfectant solution. How much of each solution should be used if
20gallons of the 15% solution are needed?
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Question 1052044: one grade of oil has .50% of an additive. a higher grade has .75% of the additive. how many quarts of each must be used to have 250 quarts of a mixture with .65% of the additive?
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Question 1052087: I've been on this problem for a very long time. I've been trying to translate the problem into a system for elimination but I just can't seem to do it correctly.
A chemist needs 5 liters of a 29% acid solution. He has a 25% solution and a 50% solution available to form the mixture. How much of each should be used to form the 29% solution?
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Question 1052222: I'm struggling with this word problem:
A 40% saline solution is to be mixed with 60% saline solution to obtain 8 liters of 55% saline solution. How many liters 40% solution should be used?
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Question 1052263: A nut store normally sells cashews for $4.00 per pound and peanuts for $1.50 per pound. But at the end of the month the peanuts had not sold well, so, in order to sell
6060
pounds of peanuts, the manager decided to mix the
6060
pounds of peanuts with some cashews and sell the mixture for
$ 2.00~~$2.00~~
per pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the peanuts to ensure no change in the profit?
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Question 1052426: If 40 ml of a 10% methanol solution was mixed with 60 ml of a 20% solution, what would the resulting solution's percent methanol be?

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Question 1052401: Help one more time or maybe 2 at the most. I hate word problems!!
A photographer is mixing a 5% acetic acid solution with a 10% acetic solution to get 5 liters of a 7%solution. How many liters of the 5 % and 10%solutions should she add? Show work
HELP!!
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Question 1052447: A radiator contains 11 quarts of fluid, 30% of which is antifreeze. How much fluid should be drained and replaced with pure antifreeze so that the new mature is 50% antifreeze?
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Question 1052563: A beaker contains 600 ml of a 8% saltwater solution. How much water must be boiled away in order to have a 9% solution? Enter your answer correct to two decimal places.
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Question 1052655: Jessica's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Jessica
$5.70
per pound, and type B coffee costs
$4.35
per pound. This month, Jessica made
176
pounds of the blend, for a total cost of
$869.55
. How many pounds of type B coffee did she use?
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Question 1052756: 2 liters of white wine that is 12% alcohol. How many liters of white grape juice should be added to get a drink that is 10% alcohol.
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Question 1052821: $13,138 is invested, part at 9% and the rest at 7%. If the interest earned from the amount invested at 9% exceeds the interest earned from the amount invested at 7% by $537.46, how much is invested at each rate? (Round to two decimal places if necessary.)

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Question 1053038: How much pure water must be mixed with 12L of a 40% alcohol solution to obtain a 15% alcohol solution?
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Question 1053047: How many liters of a 70% alcohol solution must be added to 50 liters of a 40% alcohol solution to produce a 50% alcohol solution?

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Question 1053044: Suppose you work in a lab. You need a 15% acid solution for a certain test, but your supplier only ships a 10% solution and a 30% solution. Rather than pay the hefty surcharge to have the supplier make a 15% solution, you decide to mix 10% solution with 30% solution, to make your own 15% solution. You need 10 liters of the 15% acid solution. How many liters of 10% solution and 30% solution should you use?

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Question 1053094: Show all work as you solve the following problems and write complete answers, including appropriate units.
Jose left the airport and traveled toward the lake at an average speed of 50 mph. Mary left one hour later and traveled in the same direction but with an average speed of 75 mph. Find the number of hours Jose traveled before Mary caught up.
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Question 1053126: in the lab, Linda has two solutions that contain alcohol and is mixing them with each other. she uses twice as much solutions a as solution b. solution a is 10% alcohol and solution b is 15% alcohol. how many milliliters of solution b does she use if the resulting mixture has 70 milliliters of pure alcohol?
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Question 1053213: Two motorcycles are traveling toward each other on the same road, 200 miles apart. They meet in 2 hours. One is traveling 8mph faster than the other. What is the speed of each motorcycle?
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Question 1053237: How much of an alloy that is 20% copper should be mixed with 400 ounces of an alloy that is 80% copper in order to get an alloy that is 40% copper?
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Question 1053240: A dairy needs 235 gallons of milk containing 5% butterfat. How many gallons each of milk containing 7% butterfat and milk containing 2% butterfat must be used to obtain the desired 235 gallons?
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