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Question 1107030: A beaker contains 10 kg of salt water that is 99% water and 1% salt by weight . The water is evaporated until the beaker is 98% water and 2% salt. How many kg of salt water are in the beaker at this time ?
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Question 1107107: How many pounds of tea worth $1.80 a pound must be mixed with 15 pounds of tea worth $1.10 a pound to produce a mixture worth $1.50 a pound?
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Question 1107108: A coin is seven times the age of a stamp. In six years, the coin will be three times the age the stamp will be then. Find the age of each.
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Question 1107235: Suppose you have 10 ounces of jewelry silver how much pure silver must be mixed with the silver to make sterling silver?

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Question 1107241: How many 3/8 - lb bags of trail mix can be made from 6 3/8 lbs of ingredients?
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Question 1107241: How many 3/8 - lb bags of trail mix can be made from 6 3/8 lbs of ingredients?
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Question 1107326: A scooter can travel between 22 and 28 miles per gallon of gasoline.If there one gallon costs between $3.75 and $3.95,about how much will it cost to travel 75 miles?
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Question 1107393: To create a chocolate blend, chocolate in two concentrations, 71% cocoa and 44% cocoa, are combined together. If 12 ounces of the 71% chocolate is used, how many ounces of the 44% chocolate must be used to obtain a 56% chocolate blend?
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Question 1107390: A spider crawled from the picnic basket to home at an average speed of 5 feet per minute, and then crawled back the same way at an average speed of 7 feet per minute. If the round trip took 1 minute and 30 seconds, how many feet is the spider's one-way trip from the picnic basket to home?
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Question 1107426: Mark ordered a rug.He gave a deposit of 30% of the cost and will pay the remaining money upon delivery.If her deposit was $75,how much will Mark have to pay upon delivery?
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Question 1107442: a bag of peanuts is worth $0.28 less than a bag of cashews. Equal amounts of peanuts and cashews are used to make 46 bags of a mixture that sells for a $1.40 per bag. How much is a bag of cashews?
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Question 1107455: A carter prepares three times as many pizzas as she usually prepares for a large party.She usually prepares 5 pizzas.The carter also estimates that each guest will eat 1/3 of a pizza.Write an expression that represents this situation.Then solve for the number of people the carter�s pizzas can serve.
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Question 1107466: A metal recycling plant has some scrap metal that is 45% copper. It also has some other scrap metal that is 25% copper. The scrap metal is melted together to produce 1530 g of metal that is 29% copper. How many grams of the 25% copper metal were mixed with the 45% copper metal?
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Question 1107469: During a science experiment, Alma created a 22% alcohol solution by mixing 8 fluid ounces of a 28% alcohol solution with a certain amount of a 6% alcohol solution. How many fluid ounces of the 22% alcohol solution did she create?
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Question 1107467: Mrs. Greycloud works in a lab at pharmaceutical company. She needs to make 23 liters of a 19% acid solution to test a new product. Her supplier only ships a 33% and a 10% solution. Mrs. Greycloud decides to make the 19% solution by mixing the 33% solution with the 10% solution. How much of the 33% solution will Mrs. Greycloud need to use?
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Question 1107465: Mrs. Rivera is filling planter boxes with soil that is 40% sand, and she buys 10 pounds of a commercial potting soil that is 19% sand.She mixes one of her soil with the 10 pounds commercial potting soil. The resulting soil mixture is 26% sand. How many pounds of soil did Mrs. Rivera use?
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Question 1107673: chris needs to make 150 l of a 35% acidic solution. he has only two of the acidic solutions available, a 25% solution and a 50% solution. how many litres of each acidic solution should be mixed?
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Question 1107877: Out of every 344 containers of juice bought in a grocery store 188 are orange juice what fraction of juice is orange juice
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Question 1107885: Customer A and customer B each borrowed $17,000 to purchase a car. Their annual interest rate is 3.5% in both cases.
a)Customer A pays back the loan with interest after exactly one year.How much will she have to play back?
b)Customer B manages to replay the entire loan after three months.How much does she have to pay back?

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Question 1107887: During the last four months,a contractor earned $12,000,$15,000,$28,000, and $5,000 respectively.If the contractor�s goal is to earn an average of $18,000 per month over a five-month period,how much does she need to earn during the fifth month?
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Question 1107951: A museum borrows $2,000,000 at simple annual interest to purchase new
exhibits. Let x represent the amount borrowed at 7%, y represent the amount borrowed at 8.5%, and z represent the amount borrowed at 9.5%. Set up a system of linear equations to determine how much is borrowed at each rate given that the total annual interest is $169,750 and the amount borrowed at 8.5% is four times the amount borrowed at 9.5%.
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Question 1108037: Mt.Everest, the highest elevation in the world, is 29,028 feet, above sea level. The Dead Sea, the world lower elevation, is 1312 feet, below sea level. What is the difference between the two elevation?
A)-30,340 ft
B)27,716 ft
C)-27,716 ft
D)30,340 ft
E)Not here
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Question 1108110: When Mr.X started his job,he earned $8 per hour.Now,he makes $450 for working a 40-hour per week.How much more does he earn per hour than when he first started?
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Question 1108120: A pharmacist has 200 milliliters of a solution that is 20% active ingredient. How much pure water should she add to the solution to get a solution that is 5% active ingredient?
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Question 1108119: how many gallons of a 90% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 90 gallons of 15% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 80% antifreeze?
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Question 1108118: How much water must be added to a 6-liter solution that contains 8% extract of baneberry to get a solution that contains 5% extract of baneberry?
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Question 1108141: Gabe Amodeo, a nuclear physicist, needs 30 liters of a 40% acid solution.��He currently has a 30% solution and a 60% solution.��How many liters of each does he need to make the needed 30 liters of 40% acid solution?
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Question 1108178: "The new car Mr. Jordan bought is rated at 47 miles per gallon. After driving on several long trips, Mr. Jordan found he only got 43.2 miles per gallon. How far could he travel on 37 gallons of gasoline if the gasoline costs $4.13 per gallon?"
I have difficult with word problem ? Do I multiply $4.13 to 37 gallons.. I dont know then what about the 43.2 miles per gallon... pls help
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Question 1108023: The ratio of the number of papayas to the number of bananas in the basket is 4:5. If there are 36 more kiwis than papayas, how many pieces of fruit are in the basket?
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Question 1108220: Whole milk has 3.5% butterfat; 1% milk has 1% butterfat. how many gallons of each should be mixed together in order to get a 100 gallon mixture of 2% butterfat?
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Question 1108036: Mount Everest, the highest elevation in the world, is 29,028 feet, above sea level. The Dead Sea, the world lower elevation, is 1312 feet, below sea level. What is the difference between the two elevation?
A)-30,340 ft
B)27,716 ft
C)-27,716 ft
D)30,340 ft
E)Not here

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Question 1108407: In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type?
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Question 1108541: You need 300 mL of a 50% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 75% alcohol mixture. How much of the 75% alcohol mixture and pure water will you need to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1108542: You need a 70% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 195 mL of a 60% alcohol mixture. You also have 85% alcohol mixture. How much of the 85% mixture will you need to add to obtain the desired solution?
You will need
____mL of the 85% solution
to obtain
____mL of the desired 70% solution.
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Question 1108716: There are 400 liters of a 16% solution in container A. There is a pure solution (100%) in container B. If the goal is to make a 20% solution, how many liters of the pure solution from container B must be added to container A
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Question 1108892: water is 20% the mixture of milk and water now how much water must be evaporated in the mixture then Water could be remain 12% in mixture
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Question 1109063: Cynthia Besch wants to buy a rug for a room that is 28 ft wide and 34 ft long. She wants to leave a uniform strip of floor around the rug. She can afford to buy 432 square feet of carpeting. What dimensions should the rug have?
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Question 1109068: A 34% acid solutionis mixed with a 54% acid solution to produce 700 liters of a 45% acidsolution. How many liters of each acid solution was mixed?
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Question 1109059: Write down all the ordered number pairs in the form (width;area)that represent the relationship
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Question 1109101: how much water must be evaporated from 65 gallons of a 9% salt solution to make a 12% salt solution?
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Question 1109169: A container contained 500mL of a solution that was 52% water. How much water should be removed from the solution so that the remainder would be only 40% water?
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