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Question 1153682: Can you help me solve this problem/
How much of a 60% orange juice drink must be mixed with 14 gallons of a 20% orange juice drink to obtain a mixture that is 50% orange juice
The amount of 60% orange juice drink is ____ gallons
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Question 1153659: metallurgist has one alloy containing 23% titanium and another containing 51% titanium. How many pounds of each alloy must he use to make 56 pounds of a third alloy containing 47% titanium? (Round to two decimal places if necessary.)

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Question 1153716: Sale: 9 pounds of sugar is $10.
A. How much does 18 pounds of sugar cost?
B. How much does 1 pound of sugar cost?
C. How much does 7 pounds of sugar cost?
D. How many pounds of sugar could you get for $50?
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Question 1153775: Annual sales is 1 547 600 with a 65% increase in the last 4 months of the year. What was the sales in the 1st 8 months of the year?
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Question 1153842: Initially, there were equal amount of bananas and kiwis on the table. Sarah put 6 bananas and 8 kiwis in each basket. After the baskets were ready there were 16 bananas and 8 kiwis left on the table. How many baskets were made?
Let x be the number of baskets.
Equation :
Answer :
baskets were made.

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Question 1153892: The youngest of 4 children has siblings who are 3, 5, and 8 years older than she is. If the average (arithmetic mean) age of the 4 siblings is 32, what is the age of the youngest sibling?
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Question 1154197: A chemical company makes two brands of antifreeze. The first brand is 45% pure antifreeze, and the second brand is 85% pure antifreeze. In order to obtain 40 gallons of a mixture that contains 75% pure antifreeze, how many gallons of each brand of antifreeze must be used?
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Question 1154352: Find the radius of a sphere with a volume of 4500 x pi cubic yards.
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Question 1154537: A particle moves in a straight line so that its velocity v m/s is given by v=9-t^2,where t is the time in seconds, measured from the start of the motion.Find
(a) the value of t at which the particle is instantaneously at rest.
(b)the value of t and the speed when the particle is again at its starting point.
(c)the total distance traveled when the particle returns to its starting point
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Question 1154745: A goldsmith combined an alloy that costs per ounce with an alloy that costs per ounce. How many ounces of each were used to make a mixture of oz costing per ounce?
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Question 1154789: ow many ounces of a 10 % alcohol solution must be mixed with 18 ounces of a 15 % alcohol solution to make a 11 % alcohol solution?
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Question 1154789: ow many ounces of a 10 % alcohol solution must be mixed with 18 ounces of a 15 % alcohol solution to make a 11 % alcohol solution?
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Question 1154855: a grocer buys cashews for $9 per kg and peanuts for $4.50 per kg. She wants to sell nuts individually, and she also makes 12 kg of a peanut-cashew mix which costs him $6 per kg. How many kg of nut does the grocer require to make the mix?
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Question 1154854: a grocer buys cashews for $9 per kg and peanuts for $4.50 per kg. She wants to sell nuts individually, and she also makes 12 kg of a peanut-cashew mix which costs him $6 per kg. How many kg of nut does the grocer require to make the mix?
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Question 1155048: Suppose two buckets contain sunflower seeds at a ratio of 7:3. If the bucket with fewer seeds contains 168 seeds, how many seeds are in the other bucket?
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Question 1155346: A coffee distributor needs to mix a(n) Mexican Shade Grown coffee blend that normally sells for $10.10 per pound with a Arabian Mocha coffee blend that normally sells for $14.30 per pound to create 20 pounds of a coffee that can sell for $13.46 per pound. How many pounds of each kind of coffee should they mix?
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Question 1155370: Gideon can rake his lawn in 3 hours. His friend Katsuro can rake a lawn the same size in just 2 hours. Suppose they worked together to rake Gideon’s lawn. What rational equation represents the information presented in this problem?
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Question 1155447: You need 270 mL of a 55% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 50% alcohol mixture and a 80% alcohol mixture. How much of each mixture will you need to obtain the desired solution?
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Question 1155462: a bank loaned out 11,500, part of its interest rate of 7% annual interest, and the rest at 13% interest annual interest. the total interest earned for both loans was 865.00. how much was loaned at each rate?
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Question 1155664: The population of a town t years from now will be about 8(1.04)^t thousand. Estimate to the nearest hundred the population now, and 10 years from now.

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Question 1155677: Find how many quarts of 5% butterfat milk and 1% butterfat milk should be mixed to yield 80 quarts of 3% butterfat milk.
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Question 1155684: Find how many quarts of 6% butterfat milk and 3% butterfat milk should be mixed to yield 45 quarts of 4% butterfat milk.
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Question 1155684: Find how many quarts of 6% butterfat milk and 3% butterfat milk should be mixed to yield 45 quarts of 4% butterfat milk.
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Question 1155684: Find how many quarts of 6% butterfat milk and 3% butterfat milk should be mixed to yield 45 quarts of 4% butterfat milk.
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Question 1155684: Find how many quarts of 6% butterfat milk and 3% butterfat milk should be mixed to yield 45 quarts of 4% butterfat milk.
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Question 1155828: An actor invests some money at 6%, and $44000 more than four times the amount at 9 %. The total annual interest earned from the investment is $47640. How much did he invest at each amount? Use the six-step method.
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Question 1155954: What is the sale price on a painting that has a regular price of $1,700 and is on sale for 45% off the regular price?
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Question 1155950: The concentration of platinum in a necklace is 12%. The necklace weighs 18 g. Find the amount of platinum in the necklace.
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Question 1155953: A smartphone with a regular price of $176 is on sale for $136. Find the markdown.
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Question 1155952: An outdoor supply store has its regularly priced $155 sleeping bags on sale for $124. What is the discount rate?

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Question 1155951: A discount clothing store is selling a $66 sport jacket for $11 off the regular price. What is the discount rate?
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Question 1156014: How many liters of a 70% alcohol solution must be added to 50 liters of a 40% alcohol solution to produce a 50% alcohol solution?
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Question 1156013: Annabell has 25 ounces of a 20% boric acid solution which she wishes to dilute to a 10% solution. How much water does she have to add in order to obtain the 10% solution?
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Question 1156055: A chemist has three different acid solutions. The first acid solution contains 25% acid, the second contains 40% and the third contains 85%. He wants to use all three solutions to obtain a mixture of 72 liters containing 55% acid, using 2 times as much of the 85% solution as the 40% solution. How many liters of each solution should be used?
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Question 1156047: There were 369 tickets purchased for a major league baseball game. The lower box tickets cost $12.50 and the upper box tickets cost $10.00. The total amount of money spent was $3787.50. How many of each kind of ticket were purchased?
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