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Question 1145668:
1.Mix a solution that is 30% alcohol with a solution that is 80% alcohol to make 725 mL of a solution that is 60% alcohol. How much (in mL) of each solution should you use?
30% alcohol solution__ml
80% alcohol solution__ml.
2.A welder has 15 pieces of 4 ft steel angle and 18 pieces of 2 ft steel angle. What is the ratio of pieces of 4 ft steel angle to 2 ft steel angle? (Enter your answer in fraction form.)
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Question 1145726: Ryan defeated Tom in an election for reeve of the township. A total of 6788 votes were cast. If 100 voters had switched their votes from Ryan to Tom, then Tom would have won by 64 votes. How many votes did each candidate receive?
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Question 1145782: How many mililiters of a 30 percent solution must be mixed with 12 mililiters of a 5 percent solution to obtain a 20 percent solution
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Question 1145787: How many ounces of hard candy at 20 cents per ounce must be mixed with 20 ounces of chocolate at 40 cents per ounce to get a total mixture to sell at 35 cents per ounce
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Question 1145795: How many milliliters of 30% acid solution need to be added to 55 mL of 50% acid solution that is 40% acid?
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Question 1145795: How many milliliters of 30% acid solution need to be added to 55 mL of 50% acid solution that is 40% acid?
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Question 1145888: Find three consecutive integers that sun to -42
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Question 1145968: By combining water with pure alcohol, louisse wants to obtain 2 liters of a solution that is 20% alcohol. On his first attempt at arbitrarily mixing the two together . louisse obtain 2 liters of a solution that test out 36% alcohol. On his second attempt , he obtains 2 liter of a solution that is 16% alcohol. Louisse now has two solutions (neither of which is correct)no more pure alcohol, and no idea of what he is doing. His sister dhenna tells him that by using algebra and combining a certain amounts of the 36% solution with 16% solution, she can solve his problem. How much of each solution does dhenna combine to get louisse his 2 liters of 20% alcohol?
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Question 1146134: How many liters of 80% alcohol solution and 40% alcohol solution must be mixed to obtain 8 liters of 50% alcohol solution?
a. Complete the table below with the expressions needed to solve this problem. Then solve it in part b.
80% solution 40% solution Final solution
Number of Liters x y
Liters of Alcohol

b. You need liters of 80% solution and liters of 40% solution.

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Question 1146186: A store has candy worth $0.90 a pound and candy worth $1.20 a pound. if the owners want 60 pounds of candy worth $1 a pound, how many pounds of each candy should they use?
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Question 1146352: A chemist has 20% and 60% solutions of acid available. How many liters of each solution should be mixed to obtain 25 liters of 28% acid solution?
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Question 1146448: A hair dye is made by blending a 9% hydrogen peroxide solution and a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution.
How many milliliters of each are used to make a 300-milliliter solution that is 7% hydrogen peroxide?

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Question 1146450: The manager of a specialty food store combined almonds that cost $6.40 per pound with walnuts that
cost $5.90 per pound. How many pounds of each were used to make a 100-pound mixture that costs
$6.18 per pound?
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Question 1146451: The chemists are trying to make the world's longest lasting perfume.
On their first attempt, the chemists combined 5 milliliters of a substance containing 2% sandalwood with another substance containing 6% sandalwood to get a substance containing 5% sandalwood. How many milliliters of the substance containing 6% sandalwood must the chemists have used?
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Question 1146446: A clothing manufacturer has some pure silk thread and some thread that is 80% silk. How many
kilograms of each must be woven together to make 60 kg of cloth that is 95% silk?
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Question 1146439: A printer company has two locations with a total of 23 employees. If four times the number of employees at the larger location is four greater than seven times the number of employees at the smaller location, how many employees are at each location?
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Question 1146453: Forty ounces of a 30% gold alloy are mixed with 60 oz of a 20% gold alloy. Find the percent
concentration of the resulting gold alloy.
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Question 1146460: A recipe for a rice dish calls for 8 oz of pure wild rice and 12 oz of a rice mixture that is 30% wild rice.
What is the percent concentration of wild rice in the 20-ounce mixture?
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Question 1146455: How many pounds of chamomile tea that costs $18.10 per pound must be mixed with 14 lb of orange
tea that costs $12.22 per pound to make a mixture that costs $14.67 per pound?
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Question 1146462: The chef was mixing a 5 ounce sauce containing 50% tangy mustard with another sauce containing 75% tangy mustard to get a sauce containing 70% tangy mustard. How many ounces of the 75% tangy mustard must the chef have used?
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Question 1146454: How many gallons of a 20% acid solution must be mixed with 5 gal of a 40% acid solution to make a
24% acid solution?
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Question 1146457: Find the cost per ounce of a mixture of 300 oz of a cologne that costs $8.50 per ounce and 600 oz of a
cologne that costs $4.00 per ounce.
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Question 1146648: a pharmacist needs 80 liters of a 50% alcohol solution. she has available of a 20% and 80% alchol solution. how many liters of each solution should she mix to obtain 80 liters of a 50% alcohol soultion?
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Question 1146673: A certain brass alloy contains 35% zinc and 3.0% lead. Then x kg of zinc and y kg of lead are added to 200kg of the original alloy to make a new alloy that is 40% zinc and 4.0% lead.
(a) Show that the amount of zinc is given by
0.35(200) + x = 0.40(200 + x + y)
and that the amount of lead is given by
0.030(200) + y = 0.040(200 + x + y)
(b) Solve for x and y.
Please show all steps. Thanks.
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Question 1146900: How many pounds of chamomile tea that costs $18.20 per pound must be mixed with 14 lb of orange tea that costs $12.26 per pound to make a mixture that costs $14.42 per pound?
An herbalist has 35 oz of herbs costing $3 per ounce. How many ounces of herbs costing $1 per ounce should be mixed with these 35 oz of herbs to produce a mixture costing $2.40 per ounce?
A rug is made by weaving 24 lb of yarn that is 60% wool with a yarn that is 15% wool. How many pounds of the yarn that is 15% wool must be used if the finished rug is to be 45% wool?
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Question 1146914: In a box their are n red balls alone and 3 times as many black balls .

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Question 1147138: 2) A collection of 60 dimes and nickels are worth $5.00. How many dimes are there?

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Question 1147137: 2) A collection of 60 dimes and nickels is worth $5.00. How many dimes are there?

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Question 1147210: I’m a number greater than 110 and less than 120. The sum of digits is 9. What number am I? Please
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Question 1147210: I’m a number greater than 110 and less than 120. The sum of digits is 9. What number am I? Please
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Question 1147232: The Royal Fruit Company produces two types of fruit drinks. The first type is 45% pure fruit juice, and the second type is 95% pure fruit juice. The company is attempting to produce a fruit drink that contains 160 pure fruit juice. How many pints of each of the two existing types of drink must be used to make 80% pints of a mixture that is pure fruit juice?
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Question 1147440: How many ounces of a 13% alcohol solution must be mixed with 3 ounces of a 20% alcohol solution to make a 16% alcohol solution?

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Question 1147449: A scientist has two solutions, which she has labeled Solution A and Solution B. Each contains salt. She knows that Solution A is 35% salt and Solution B is 85% salt. She wants to obtain 130 ounces of a mixture that is 80% salt. How many ounces of each solution should she use?
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