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Question 345627: How much water should be added to 30 liters of 40% acid solution to reduce to 30% solution?
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Question 345936: a baker needs between 40 lb and 50 lb of a flour sugar mixture that contains ten times as much flour as sugar. what are the possible weights of flour the bakers can use?
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Question 345946: Mr. Jackson borrowed money from his bank and on his life insurance to start a business. His interest rate on the bank loan was 10%, and his rate on the insurance loan was 12%. If the total amount borrowed was $100,000 and his total yearly interest payment was $10,900, how much did he borrow from the bank?
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Question 345966: a radiator contains 8 quarts of fluid, 40% of which is antifreeze. how much fluid should be drained and replaced with pure antifreeze so the new mixture is 60% antifreeze
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Question 346007: How many gallons of a 3% salt solution must be mixed with 10 gallons of a 7% solution to obtain a 4% solution?
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Question 346006: How many cubic centimeters (cc)of a 25% solution should be added to 10 cubic centimeters of a 60% solution in order to get a 30% solution?
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Question 346060: a radiator holds 12 qt of liquid. How many quarts of pure antifreeze and how many quarts of 40% antiffreeze solution must be mixed to fill the radiator with a 50% antifreeze solution?
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Question 345999: How much of an alloy that is 20% copper should be mixed with 600 ounces of an alloy that is 70% copper in order to get an alloy that is 30% copper?
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Question 346068: a merchant has coffee worth $20 a pound that she wishes to mix with 90 pounds of coffee worth $60 a pound to get a mixture that can be sold for $30 a pound. How many pounds of the $20 coffee should be used?
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Question 345769: How many gallons of a 2% salt solution must be mixed with 20 gallons of a 7% solution to obtain a 4% solution?
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Question 346125: a chemist needs 110 milliliters of a 46% solution but has only 40% and 73% solutions available. Find how many mililiters of each that should be mixed to get the desired solution.
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Question 346335: Julius sold five times as many computers as Sam sold last year. In total , they sold 78 computers. What is the eguation for this word problem?
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Question 346619: A bicycle path is 7 miles long. A man walks from one end at the rate of 3 mph. At the same time, a friend bicycles from the other end, traveling at 25 mph. In how many minutes will they meet?
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Question 346723: Hello theres one question on my alegebra that i just cannot figure it's: How many liters of water must be added to 30liters of a 20% alcohol solution to dilute it to a 15% solution?
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Question 346773: a chemist needs to make 30 ounce of a 25% alcohol sulution by mixing together a 15% alcohal with 40% solution. how much of each solution should she use
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Question 346902: How many gallons of cream that is 22% butterfat must be mixed with milk that is 2% butterfat to get 20 gallons of milk containing 4% butterfat?
I've tried using my math book to solve but this question is backwards from the example in the book.
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Question 346279: a biker mixed 11 pounds of raisins that cost $2.30 per pound with peanuts that cost $4.50 per pound to make a mixture that cost $3.29 per pound. how many pounds of peanuts did the biker use?
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Question 347087: A dietitian arranges a special diet composed of two types of food, A and B. Each ounce of food A contains 10 units of calcium and 4 units of iron; each ounce of food B contains 6 units of calcium and 4 units of iron. How many ounces of foods A and B should be used to obtain a food mix that contains 92 units of calcium and 44 units of iron? Thank You
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Question 347162: How many liters of water must be added to 30 liters of a 20 percent alcohol solution to dilute it to a 15 percent dilution
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Question 347300: a chemist needs to mix 20L of a 40% acid solution with some 70% acid solution to obtain a mixture that is 50% acid. How many liters of the 70% acid solution should be used?
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Question 347483: a car radiator containes 10 liters of a 30% antifreeze solution. how many liters will have to be replaced with pure antifreeze if the resulting solution is to be 50% antifreeze?
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Question 347503: What quantity of 70 per cent acid solution must be mixed with a 30 solution to produce 480 mL of a 50 per cent solution?
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Question 347686: This is a homework problem I can't figure out: A party mix is made by adding nuts that sell for $2.50 per kg to a cereal mixture that sells for $1.00 per kg. How much of each should be added to get 30 kg of a mix that will sell for $1.70 per kg?
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Question 347694: I can't figure this out: Pure acid is to be added to a 10% acid solution to obtain 54 L of a 20% acid solution. What amounts of each should be used?
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Question 347696: A ferry leaves a harbor and travels to a resort island at an average speed of 22 mph. On the return trip, the ferry travels at an average speed of 18 mph because of fog. The total time for the trip is 5 h. How far is the island from the harbor?
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Question 347360: Please help with the following: a grocer is mixing coffees. A premium blend of coffee is $17/kg and the less expensive brand is $7. He will make a 36 kg blend worth $11/kg. How many kg of each type. We are missing something!
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Question 347991: How many pints of a 10% cleaning solution must be mixed with 6 pints of an 8% cleaning solution to give a 9% solution?
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Question 348084: How much water must be evaporated from 240 gallons of a 3% salt solution to produce a 5% salt solution?
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Question 348076: How much water should be added to 1 gallon of antifreeze to obtain a solution that is 60% antifreeze?
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Question 348257: How much water must be added to 20.0ml of a 60.0% saline solution in order to make a 45.0% saline solution?
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Question 348330: How much pure water must be mixed with 3 pints of 90% developer to produce a mixture that is 17% developer?
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Question 348330: How much pure water must be mixed with 3 pints of 90% developer to produce a mixture that is 17% developer?
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Question 348398: how much pure acid is 520 milliliters of a 15% solution
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Question 348415: A truck enters a highway driving 60mph. a car enters the highway at the same spot, 8 minutes later and drives 71 mph in the same direction. From the time the car enters the highway, how long will it take the car to pass the truck?
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Question 348452: Students sold peanut butter cookies for $6.50 a dozen. They sold chocolate chip cookies for $9.00 a dozen. They sold 85 dozen more peanut butter cookies than chocolate chip cookies. The total dollar amount sold was 4055.50. How many dozen peanut butter cookies were sold?
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Question 348506: how many liters of 25% ethanol should be added to 20 liters of 48% ethanol to obtain a solution of 58% ethanol?
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Question 348570: There are two containers of lemonade; one contains 6% of sugar, and the other is with 12%. To make 800oz of lemonade with 10.5% of sugar, how do you need to mix the two?
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Question 348538: a 40% solution is to be mixed with a 60% solution to obtain 8 liters of a 55% solution. how many liters of each solution should be used
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Question 348909: a 6 pound mixture of penuts and cashews costing $4.00 per pound would contain __pounds of cashews
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Question 348913: Need help please: A 100% concentrate is to be mixed with a mixture having a concentration of 30% to obtain 50 gallons of a mixture with a concentration of 70%. How much of the 100% concentrate will be needed?
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Question 348695: how many liters of a solution containing 50% pure fruit juice must be mixed with 100 liters of a solution containing 90% pure fruit juice to obtain a solution that is 70% pure fruit juice?
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