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Question 1130403: Y 3x=for x
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Question 1130483: There are two barrels, one containing 40 gallons of wine and 60 gallons of water, the other containing 70 gallons of wine and 30 gallons of water.A pailful is taken from the first barrel and poured into the second. After mixing, a pailful is poured back into the first barrel. The proportions of wine to water in the first barrel are now 19:26. What is the capacity of the pail?
Choices: a. 8 b. 10 c. 12 d. 14
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Question 1130639: A chemist has three different acid solutions. The first acid solution contains 25% acid, the second contains 35% ACID, and the third contains
65%. He wants to use all three solutions to obtain a mixture of 102 liters containing 40% acid, using 2 times as much of the 65% solution as the 35% solution. How many liters of each solution should be used?
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Question 1130710: a chemist mixes water and alcohol in a 7 to 8 ratio. if she takes a 450-l solution, how much is water and how much is alcohol?
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Question 1130645: At the quickie cookie company, the cookie ovens are used from 8am to 6pm and produce 3000 cookies per hour. The packaging machine can package 4000 cookies per hour and also stops exactly at 6pm. At what time should the packaging machine be turned on so that all cookies are packaged and the machine never waits for cookies?
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Question 1130773: A chemist has three different acid solutions. The first acid solution contains
20%
acid, the second contains
30%
and the third contains
75%
.He wants to use all three solutions to obtain a mixture of 48
liters containing
50%
acid, using 2
times as much of the
75%
solution as the 30%
solution. How many liters of each solution should be used?
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Question 1130950: a 70% acid solution is to be mixed with water to produce a 5 liter mixture containing 28% acid. How many milliliters of water and how many milliliters of the 70% acid solution are needed to create the 28% acid solution?

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Question 1130954: a grocer wants to create a mixture of jolly ranchers and tootsie pops. if jolly ranchers sell for $2 per pound and tootsie pops sell for $5 per pound how many pounds of toosie pops must be mixed with 20 pounds of jolly ranchers to create a mixture that sells for $4 per pound?
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Question 1130978: how many liters of a 5% acid solution should be mixed with 40 liters of 10% acid solution to obtain a mixture that is 8% acid?
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Question 1131130: How many liters of a 12% acid solution must be mixed with 10 Liters of a 24% Acid solution to make a 20% as a solution
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Question 1131276: A store sells cashews for $5.00 per pound and peanuts for $2.00 per pound. The manger decides to mix 10 pounds of peanuts with some cashews and sell the mix for $3.00 per pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the peanuts so that the mixture will produce the same revenue as would selling the nuts separately?
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Question 1131365: A hospital parking lot charges $4.00 for the first hour of park thereof, and $2.00 for each additional hour or part thereof. A weekly pass costs $43.00 and allows unlimited parking for 7 days. If each visit Jonny makes to the hospital lasts three and a half hours, what is the minimum number of each visits for which buying a pass would be less expensive than paying for each time?
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Question 1131385: How many liters of a 15% acid solution should be mixed with 10 liters of a 36% acid solution to obtain a mixture that is 20%?
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Question 1131385: How many liters of a 15% acid solution should be mixed with 10 liters of a 36% acid solution to obtain a mixture that is 20%?
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Question 1131386: How many gallons of each of a 7% and a 23% salt solutions should be mixed to obtain 32 gallons of a 12% solution?
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Question 1131387: How many liters of each of a 12% and a 33% alcohol solutions should be mixed to obtain 21 liters of a 25% solution?
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Question 1131452: Two compounds that contain Cu and Cl have the following masses:
Cpd A: 32.10 g Cu and 17.90 g Cl
Cpd B: 23.64 g Cu and 26.37 g Cl
Are the compounds the same? If not, what is the lowest whole-number mass ratio of Cu that combines with a given mass of Cl?

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Question 1131466: The manager of a candy shop sells chocolate covered peanuts for $7 per pound and chocolate covered cashews for $12 per pound. The manager wants to mix 50 pounds of the cashews to get a cashew-peanut mixture that will sell for $8 per pound. How many pounds of chocolate covered peanuts should be used?
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Question 1131469: 13) George decide to put aside some money each day so he could buy a new television. He saved $1 on the first day, $1.50 on the 2nd day, $2 on the 3rd day, and so on, each day saving 50 cents more than he did the day before. He did this for 62 days. How much money George after 62 days?
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Question 1131939: Mary had $4.85 in her pocket. What fraction in simplest form represents the amount of money Mary has in her pocket?
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Question 1132004: How many liters of a 20% alcohol solution must be mixed with 70 liters of a solution that is 80% alcohol to get a solution that is 50% alcohol?
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Question 1132015: You have 30 cups of a drink that contains 58% sugar. How many cups of a drink containing 37% sugar needs to be added in order to have a final drink that is 55% sugar?
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Question 1132019: Keiko bought packs of cola. Each pack had 6 cans. She drank 7 of the cans. How many cans are left? can you tell me the answer
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Question 1131618: During one month, a blood donation center found that
45.3% of the donors had the A antigen.
14.7% of the donors had the B antigen.
4.7% of the donors had the A antigen and the B antigen.
84.3% of the donors were Rh+.
87.5% of the donors had the B antigen or were Rh+.
(a)
Find the percent of donors that have the A antigen or the B antigen.
(b)
Find the percent of donors that have the B antigen and are Rh+.
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Question 1132117: If Solution A contains 45% hydrogen and Solution B contains 69% hydrogen. How much of each solution should be mixed in order to create 150 liters of a solution that contains 61% hydrogen?

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Question 1132272: a,b and c are partner who share profit in the ratio of their capital as A's capital is 5000 and B's is 25000 in 2006 profit was3500 in which C's share was 1500 find C's capital
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Question 1132275: income of A,b,c are in ratio 5:4:3 and their spending ratio is 8:5:4 if A save rupee 80out of income 1200 find saving of B and C

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Question 1132275: income of A,b,c are in ratio 5:4:3 and their spending ratio is 8:5:4 if A save rupee 80out of income 1200 find saving of B and C

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Question 1132315: for a certain experiment, a student requires 100 cubic centimeters of a solution that is 8% HCl, the storeroom has only solutions that are 15%HCl and 5% HCl, How many cubic centimeters of each available solution should be mixed to get 100 cubic centimenters of 8% HCl.
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Question 1132366: A tank holds 80 liters of a chemical solution. Currently, the solution has a strength of 30%. How much of this solution must be DRAINED and REPLACED with a 70% solution to get a strength of 40%? (use only one variable and thanks in advance)
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Question 1132365: A kilogram of milk chocolate sells for Php60, and a kilogram of bittersweet chocolate sells Php80. how many kilograms of each must be mixed to form 24 kilograms of an assortment selling of Php72.50 per kilogram? (use only one variable and thanks in advance)
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Question 1132387: How many liters of a 10% solution should be mixed with 60L of 25% solution to get 15% solution?
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Question 1132388: how many gallons of 5% acid solution must be mixed with 5 gal or a 10% solution to obtain a 7% solution?
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Question 1132557: The dimensions of a rectangular box are consecutive integers. If a box has volume of 13,800 cubic centimeters, what are its dimensions?
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Question 1132692: Two mechanics worked on a car. The first mechanic worked for
10 hours and the second mechanic worked for 5
hours. Together they charged a total of 1075
. What was the rate charged per hour by each mechanic if the sum of the two rates was $160
per hour?

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