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Question 1092544: A pharmacist wishes to mix a solution that is 55% Minoxidil. She has on hand 6060 ml of a 44% solution and wishes to add some 77% solution to obtain the desired 55% solution. How much 77% solution should she add?
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Question 1092534: It takes 5 minutes to fill a rectangular aquarium 9 inches long,11 inches wide,and 13 inches tall. How long will it take the same hose to fill in aquarium measuring 23" x 26" x 34"
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Question 1092536: two is subtracted from a number and then the difference is multiplied by the result is 30 find the number
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Question 1092605: How much of an alloy that is 20% copper should be mixed with 300 ounces of an alloy that is 80% copper in order to get an alloy that is 30% copper?
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Question 1092629: How many quarts of pure antifreeze must be added to 5 quarts of a 10% antifreeze solution to obtain a 20% antifreeze solution?
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Question 1092637: a printer has ink that is 5% cobalt blue color and ink that is 25% cobalt blue color. how many ounces of each ink are needed to make 3 gallons (384 ounces) of ink that is 15% cobalt blue color?
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Question 1092704: Ronald has 12% solution of the fertilizer super grow. how much pure super grow should he ass to the mixture to get 32 oz of a 17.5% concentration?
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Question 1092896: Question 9
A store is having a sale on jelly beans and trail mix. For
8
pounds of jelly beans and
4
pounds of trail mix, the total cost is
$25
. For
3 pounds of jelly beans and
2
pounds of trail mix, the total cost is
$11
. Find the cost for each pound of jelly beans and each pound of trail mix.
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Question 1092908: You are a chemist and you have a supply of a brine solution that is 40% salt and a brine that is 20% salt. You are performing a experiment that requires you to have 12 liters of a 25% brine solution. How much of the 40% solution and 20% solution do you need to add together to get the required solution?
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Question 1092934: A mixture of 20kg of spirit and and water contains 10% of water .After add certain amount of water the weight of the new mixture is 25kg .what is the % of water in new mixture. Solve this
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Question 1092944: A vat contain 4000L of wine with an alcohol content of 10% How much of this wine must be removed so that when it is replaced with wine with 17% alcohol content the alcohol content in the final mixture will be 12%
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Question 1093174: a solution containing 8% salt is to be mixed with a solution containing 16% salt to obtain a 50 liter mixture with 10%. How many liters of each solution should be used?
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Question 1093354: In the lab, Jessica has two solutions that contain alcohol and is mixing them with each other. She uses twice as much Solution A as Solution B. Solution A is
12%
alcohol and Solution B is
19%
alcohol. How many milliliters of Solution B does she use, if the resulting mixture has
86
milliliters of pure alcohol?
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Question 1093387: Amiri can deliver his newspapers in 83 minutes. it takes Horus 65 minutes to do the same route. How long would it take them to deliver the newspapers if they work together?
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Question 1093458: A motel clerk counts his $1 and $10 bills at the end of the day. He finds that he has a total of 60 bills having a combined monetary value of $195. Find the number of bills of each denomination that he has.

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Question 1093510: In a chemistry class, 5 liters of a 4% silver iodide solution must be mixed with 10% solution to get a 6% solution. How many liters of the 10% solution are needed?
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Question 1093599: a nurse needs rubbing alcohol, which is a 70% alcohol solution. However, there is only a 40% alcohol solution and a 90% alcohol solution in stock. how much of each solution should be mixed in order to obtain 8 ounces of the desired solution?
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Question 1093466: In the lab, Raina has two solutions that contain alcohol and is mixing them with each other. Solution A is
10%
alcohol and Solution B is
40%
alcohol. She uses
200
milliliters of Solution A. How many milliliters of Solution B does she use, if the resulting mixture is a
30%
alcohol solution?
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Question 1093660: Fast food restaurant sell hamburger and cheese burgers. Hamburger sells for x dollars and and French fries for y dollars.(a) what does the expression x+y represen?

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Question 1093661: Fast food restaurant sell hamburger and cheese burgers. Hamburger sells for x dollars and and French fries for y dollars.(a) what does the expression x+y represent? (b) are the expression 3(x+y) and 3x +3y equivalent?exxplain your answer in term of what variables represent.

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Question 1093857: a landscaper needs to mix a 80% pesticide solution with 25 gal of a 20% pesticide solution to obtain a 65% pesticide solution. How many gallons of the 80% solution must he use?
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Question 1094033: sandy's trail mix was made combining 4 pounds of peanuts that cost $5 per pound, 11 pounds raisins at $3 per pound, and 10 pounds of cashews $4 per pound. what was the cost Per pound of the mixture?
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Question 1094039: How many gallons of a 80% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 60 gallons of 30% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 70% antifreeze?
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Question 1094062: How many gallons of a fruit drink that is 50% real juice must be mixed with a fruit drink that is 20% real juice to obtain 12 gallons of a fruit drink that is 40% real juice?
I have attempted to make a chart as follows, but I'm not sure I have the numbers in the correct spots. Ignore the lines in between numbers, that's just to separate the different parts of the chart.
x | .50 | .50x
12 | .40 | .40(12)
x+12 | .20 | .20(x+12)
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Question 1093978: $9,609 is invested, part at 12% and the rest at 5%. If the interest earned from the amount invested at 12% exceeds the interest from the amount invested at 5%by $519.32, how much is invested at each rate?
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Question 1094234: How much water must be added to a 10 liter of 15% alcohol drink so that a 5% alcohol drink is obtained
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Question 1094292: In the lab, Nicole has two solutions that contain alcohol and is mixing them with each other. Solution A is 60% alcohol and Solution B is 10% alcohol. She uses 800 milliliters of solution A. How many mililliters of Solution B does she use, if the resulting mixture is a 30% alcohol solution?
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Question 1094340: You need 1235 mL of a 85% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 5% alcohol mixture. How much of the 5% alcohol mixture and pure alcohol will you need to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1094364: How many gallons of a 70% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 100 gallons of 15% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 60% antifreeze? i dont know how to set it up

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Question 1094507: Two numbers have a sum of 17. Four times the larger number is 2 less than 6 times the smaller. Find the numbers.
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Question 1094597: Out of every 425 containers of juice bought in a grocery store, 115 are orange juice. What fraction of juice purchased is orange juice?
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Question 1094740: a laboratory needs to make a 21-liter batch of a 40% acid solution. how can the laboratory technician combine a batch of an acid solution that is pure acid with another that is 10% to get the desired concentration?
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