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Question 1117565: at the movies theater, child admission is 5.30 and adult admission is 8.80. on thursday, 140 tickets were sold for total sales of 948.50. how many adult tickets were sold that day? how many children tickets were sold?
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Question 1117599: If y varies directly as x and inversely as the square of z and y=6 when x=64 and z =8, how do you find y when x = 21 and z=2?
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Question 1117598: If y varies directly as x and inversely as the square of z and y=6 when x=64 and z =8, how do you find y when x = 21 and z=52?
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Question 1117598: If y varies directly as x and inversely as the square of z and y=6 when x=64 and z =8, how do you find y when x = 21 and z=52?
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Question 1117739: Chocolate costing $10 per pound is mixed with nuts costing $4 per pound to make a mixture costing $6 per pound. What fraction of the mixture's weight is chocolate? Express your answer as a common fraction.

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Question 1117829: the product of three consecutive positive integers is eight times their sum.what is the sum of their squares
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Question 1117850: Thirty percent of the liquid evaporated. If 560 millimeters remain, how many millimeters evaporated.
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Question 1118197: A scientist has two solutions, which she has labeled Solution A and Solution B. Each contains salt. She knows that Solution A is
60%
salt and Solution B is
85%
salt. She wants to obtain
140
ounces of a mixture that is
80%
salt. How many ounces of each solution should she use?

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Question 1118214: An 8L solution that was 22% vinegar was mixed with a 9L solution that was 76% vinegar. Find the concentration of the vinegar.

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Question 1118221: Area of 280 feet of fence is to be used if the width is 2/3 of the length what is the length and width

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Question 1118281: Theresa Morgan, a chemist, has a 25% hydrochloric acid solution and a 50% hydrochloric acid solution. How many liters of each should she mix to get 387.5 liters of a hydrochloric acid solution with a 40% acid concentration?

liters of 25% hydrochloric acid solution .
liters of 50% hydrochloric acid solution .
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Question 1118306: A trip to St. Louis from Atlanta will take 73⁄4 hours. Assuming you're two-thirds of the way there, how much longer, in hours, will the trip take?

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Question 1118479: how much metal that is 75% iron must be mixed with metal that is 60%iron in order to get 200 kilograms of a metal that is 69%iron
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Question 1118479: how much metal that is 75% iron must be mixed with metal that is 60%iron in order to get 200 kilograms of a metal that is 69%iron
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Question 1118558: A scientist has two solutions which she has labeled solution Aand solution B. Each contain salt. She knows that solution A is 70% salt and solution B is 95% salt. She wants to obtain 50 ounces of a mixture that is 90% salt. How many ounces of each solution should she use ?
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Question 1118639: Jan wants to make 15L of a 14% sugar solution by mixing together a 20% sugar solution and a 10% sugar solution. How much of each solution must she use?
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Question 1118745: A chemist needs 12 liters of a 10% alcohol solution but has only a 15% alcohol solution. How many liters each of the 15% solution and water should i mix to make the desired 12 liters of 10% solution?
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Question 1118744: Gabe Amodeo, a nuclear physicist, needs 60 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 60 liters of 40% acid solution?
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Question 1118746: Ms. Brown invested $24,000 in two accounts, one yielding 5% interest and the other yielding 12%. If she received a total of $1,900 in interest at the end of the year, how much did she invest in each account?
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Question 1118754: 6. A contractor orders 8 cubic yards of premixed cement, all of which is to be used to pour a patio that will be 4 inches thick. If the length of the patio is specified to be twice the width, what are the patio dimensions? (1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet)
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Question 1118927: If Drink A contains 21% juice concentrate and Drink B contains 36% juice concentrate. How much of each solution should be mixed in order to create 125 milliliters of a solution that contains 33% juice concentrate?
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Question 1118931: An alcohol is 65%. How much solution is required to obtain 180.0 ml of alcohol
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Question 1118963: Im having trouble with this word problem and need some assitance. Ritas coffee shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs rita $4.10 per pound, and type B coffe costs $5.15 per pound. this months blend used twice as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $432.00. how many pounds of type A coffee were used?
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Question 1119116: How much water must be added to a 2-liter solution that contains 6% extract of baneberry to get a solution that contains 4% extract of baneberry?
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Question 1119117: A company paid $150,000 for a new 18-wheeler. When it is 9 years old it will be worth $42,000. Using straight-line depreciation, the value of the truck in dollars, V, is a linear function of its age in years, n. Find the function and the value when the truck is 4 years old.
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Question 1119127: When the Mild Mannered Monkeys finished their concert in South America, they went swimming in Mousy Moe�s pool. This resulted in a 2% mixture of dirt. As it was hot at night, the mixture in the morning was 2/1/2% dirt. If the pool originally contained 3500L of the mixture, how much water has evaporated overnight?
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Question 1119243: How many ounces of 35% alcohol solution must be mixed with 7 ounces of a 40% alcohol solution to make a 36% alcohol solution
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Question 1119279: N�o consigo resolver o seguinte problema:
Um qu�mico necessita de 12 litros de uma solu��o �cida, para um solvente em um laborat�rio. O lugar de estoque tem 40% de 80% de solu��o �cida que o qu�mico necessita, para produzir 50% da solu��o. Quantos litros da solu��o a 80% o qu�mico vai necessitar?

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Question 1119285: The royal fruit company produces two types of fruit drinks. The first type is 20% pure fruit juice and the second type is 75% pure fruit juice. The company is attempting to produce a fruit drink that contains 35% pure fruit juice. How many pints of each of the two existing types of drinks must be used to make 110 pints of a mix that is 35% pure fruit juice?
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Question 1119315: If Drink A contains 1% sugar and Drink B contains 79% sugar. How much of each solution should be mixed in order to create 120 milliliters of a solution that contains 66% sugar?
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Question 1119360: How many ounces of a 16% alcohol solution and a 42% alcohol solution must be combined to obtain 78% ounces of a 24% solution.
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Question 1119377: One canned juice drink is
20% orange juice; another is
10% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get
10L that is
14% orange juice?
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Question 1119385: I tried looking at some examples but i'm still confused. Can someone help please? thank you.
A chemical company makes two brands of antifreeze. The first brand is 20% pure antifreeze and the second brand is 70% pure antifreeze. In order to obtain 180 gallons of a mixture that contains 40% pure antifreeze, how many gallons of each brand of antifreeze must be used?

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Question 1119522: How many liters of a 7% solution of salt should be added to a 28% solution in order to obtain 903 liters of a 24% solution?
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