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Question 1080562: A chemist needs a 30% acid solution. How much pure acid needs to be mixed with 5 milliliter a of a 10% acid solution to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1080637: Set up the problem to be done to find the number asked for in the expression "six less than twice 29/6?
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Question 1080637: Set up the problem to be done to find the number asked for in the expression "six less than twice 29/6?
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Question 1080825: How many liters of water must Sharon add to 5 liters of a soap and water mixture which is 36% soap to create a solution which is 12% soap?
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Question 1080858: A rectangular painting(not including the frame)has a height of 8 inches and a length of 12 inches. The frame surrounding the picture is of uniform thickness(w)
a.Create a function in standard form that models the are of the frame only.
b.what is the domain of the function
c.if the are of the frame is 224 square inches what is the thickness(w) of the frame?
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Question 1080857: Paul mixes nuts worth $1.85 per pound with raisins worth $1.25 per pound to make a trail mix worth $1.45 per pound. how many pounds of nuts and how many pounds of raisins should he combine to make 30 pounds of the trail mix?
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Question 1080894: If 2000 cm3 of 4% alcohol was combined with 400 cm3 of 10% alcohol, how much of a solution of 50% alcohol should be added to make a solution of 20% alcohol?
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Question 1081001: How much pure disinfectant must be added to 30 gallons of an 8% solution to increase its strength of 25%?

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Question 1081282: Perry asked you to make 12 L of fruit punch that contains 35% fruit juice by mixing together some amount of Brand A fruit punch and some amount of Brand B fruit punch. Brand A contains 40% fruit juice and Brand B contains 25% fruit juice. How much of each do you need?
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Question 1081285: Abhasra asked you to make 25 gal. of fruit punch that contains 50% fruit juice by mixing together some Sweet Tropical Fruit Punch and some grape juice. How much of each ingredient do yo need if the Sweet Tropical Fruit Punch contains 25% juice?
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Question 1081281: Julia wants to make 20 fl. oz. of a 65% sugar solution by mixing together a 85% sugar solution and a 35% sugar solution. How much of each solution must she use?
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Question 1081639: Eight gallons of salt consists of 35% salt. It is the result of mixing a 50% solution with a 30% solution. How many gallons of each of the solutions was used? The corresponding modeling system is
X+y=8
.5x+.3y=.35(8)
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Question 1081778: One liter of cleaner is mixed in a ratio of 1 part cleaner to 8 parts water.how much cleaning solution does this make altogether

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Question 1081931: The Candy Shoppe sells a box of mixed chocolates. The box of chocolates contains 12 ounces of chocolate covered caramels, 14 ounces of chocolate covered cherries, 6 ounces of chocolate covered raisons. How many pounds are in the box of chocolates?
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Question 1081979: a vendor bought 10 liters of milk at $10 and 20 liters of milk at $30. in what proportion should i mix water and the total 30 liters of milk to sell each liter of milk at $1 per liter?
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Question 1081999: You need 150 mL of a 85% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 70% alcohol mixture and a 95% mixture. How much of each mixture will you need to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1081770: A Web music store offers two versions of a popular song. The size of the standard version is
2.1
megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is
4.4
MB. Yesterday, there were
890
downloads of the song, for a total download size of
2536
MB. How many downloads of the standard version were there?
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Question 1082288: Each Book cost $11 and each toy cost $6 . how many books and toys did she buy for $157
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Question 1082290: write the fillowing algebrack exftession as basic arithmatic exfression average x�5

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Question 1082363: Sara mixed 13oz of soil containing 16% clay with 7oz of soil with 5% clay. What is the clay content in the mixture?

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Question 1082442: A mixture of alchohol and water contains 15% alchohol. How many gallons of alchohol must be added to 5 gallons. of this mixture to make it a 20% mixture.
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Question 1082541: tickets for a certain concert sold for $6, $8 and 12$ each. there were 280 more 6$ tickets sold than 8$ and 12$ tickets together and the total revenue from 840 tickets was $6080. how many tickets were sold?
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Question 1082663: a mixture of an herbal liquid and a base oil contains 45% herbal liquid by weight.25 gm of base oil is added to such 200 gram of mixture.What percentage of herbal liquid by weight is there in the new mixture?
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Question 1082706: An ice cream shop sells sundaes in three size: small, 89�; MEDIUM, $1.19; and large, $1.39. On a recent day, Robert sold 52 sundaes. He sold two more than twice as many as mediums as larges. If $58.98 was the total income from selling the sundaes, how many of each size did he sell?
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Question 1082823: nadia has a mixture of oil and water. she wants to remove most of the oil from the mixture. how can she do this ?
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Question 1082878: The tax on a property with an assessed value of $54,000 is $525. Using a proportion find the tax on a property with an assessed value of $110.000?

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Question 1083108: A number multiplied by -9, subtracted from the sum of 13 and three times the number
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Question 1083300: I have a Product we will call Product A which contains 98.078% water, .8970% of ingredient 1, .064% of ingredient 2, .064% of Ingredient 3, .7690% of ingredient 4 and .128% of Ingredient 5.
I want to make Product B which will be PRODUCT A plus X amount of water to dilute it.
How do I figure out the percentage of each of the ingredients in Product B the new more diluted product?
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Question 1083361: If a number ends 3 zeros ,how many zeros it square has
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Question 1083346: You have two salt water solutions. One consists of 20% salt the other consists of 15% if you want to add these two together to make 5 gallons of 17% solution how much of each solution should you add?
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Question 1083427: How many milliliters of a 5% acid solution and how many milliliters of a 17% acid solution must be mixed to obtain 60 mL of a 13% acid solution?
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Question 1083460: Admission to mammoth cave is $12 for adults and $8 for youth. One day, 575 people eneyered the cave paying a total of $5600. How many adults entered the cave?
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Question 1083473: A bus of wheels of diameter 1.4 if just trick kilometer then 1 minutes how much round need
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Question 1083671: A scientist has two solutions, which she has labeled Solution A and Solution B. Each contains salt. She knows that Solution A is
55%
salt and Solution B is
80%
salt. She wants to obtain
160
ounces of a mixture that is
60%
salt. How many ounces of each solution should she use?

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Question 1083725: There are 34 learners in a grade 9 class. The class register shows that there are 4 more girls than boys. How many boys are there in the class?
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Question 1084236: The area of Desert A is five times the area of Desert B. If the sum of their areas is 1,800,000 square miles, find the area of each desert.
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Question 1084421: A boat sails upstream and after 2 hours it has sailed 10km. if the boat would sail downstream, it would sail 30 km in 2 hours calculate the speed of the boat and of the stream in km/h
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Question 1084422: A 10L tank of salt water is composed of 20% salt and 80% water. How many litres of salt water should be removed, and replaced with salt, so that the salt water consists of 30% salt?

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Question 1084611: 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 50% copper?
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Question 1084679: How much pure acid shold be mixed with 7 gallons of a 40% acid solution in order to get a 80% acid solution?
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