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Question 392467: Lemon drops and jelly beans are mixed to make a 100 pound mix. If the lemon drops cost $1.90 per pound and jelly beans cost $1.20 per pound, how many pounds of jelly beans are needed to make the mix cost $1.48 per pound
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Question 392626: Your lawn mower requires an oil and gas mixture to make it run correctly. The mixture requires 3 times as much gas as oil. Gas costs $1.43 and oil costs $.85 a gallon. How many full gallons of the mixture can be made for $20? This should be just a one variable equation... I have tried 1.43y + (1/3)(.85)y <=20 and I am not getting the correct answer?
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Question 392688: Gerry mixes different solutions with concentrations of 25%, 40%, and 50% to get 200 liters of a 32% solution. If he uses twice as much of the 25% solution as the 40% solution, find out how may liters of each kind he uses.
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Question 393086: a store manager wishes to reduce the price on her fresh ground coffee by mixing two grades. if she has 50 pounds of coffee which sells for $10 per pound, how much coffee worth $6 per pound must she mix with it so that she can sell the final mixture for $8.50 per pound?
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Question 393122: please help me solve this problem:
1. A farmer has 100 galoons of 70% pure disinfectant. he wishes to mix it with disinfectant which is 90% pure in order to obtain 75% pure disinfectant. how much of the 90% pure disinfectant must he use?
please show the solution, thank you!!
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Question 393206: ok so i have been sick and i have a test tomorrow on dry mixture word problem. i understand some but I am stuck on this one! please help:
Trail Snax Corp mixes raisins that cost $5 per kg with penuts that cost $3.80 per kghow many kilograms of raisins should be mixed with 10 killograms of peanuts to obtain a mixture worth $4.00!
Thank you! :)
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Question 393458: You manage a coffee shop. You begin the day with 25 pounds of coffee beans. You use 4 pounds of beans to brew coffee and sell 20 equal-weight bags of beans. At the end of the day you have 6 pounds of beans left. What is the weight of each bag of beans you sell?
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Question 393674: hi again..
1. A hospital needs to dilute a 50% boric acid solution to a 10% solution. If it needs 25 liters of the 10% solution, how much of the 50% solution and how much water should it use?
2. anabel has 25 ounces of a boric acid solution which she wishes to dilute to a 10% solution. how much of the 10% solution must be used?
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Question 393982: My son has this problem on his math. I don't have any idea where to start. We really just need help figuring out what the equation is. We can take it from there.
"There is a game at a fair in which you toss balls into a bowl to win fish. There are 52 bowls. The larger bowls contain 5 fish, and the smaller ones contain 3 fish. If there are 202 fish total, how many bowls of each size are there?"
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Question 393982: My son has this problem on his math. I don't have any idea where to start. We really just need help figuring out what the equation is. We can take it from there.
"There is a game at a fair in which you toss balls into a bowl to win fish. There are 52 bowls. The larger bowls contain 5 fish, and the smaller ones contain 3 fish. If there are 202 fish total, how many bowls of each size are there?"
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Question 394130: one machine can complete a job in 10minutes. if the same jobis done byh thismachine and an older machine working together, the job can be completed in 6 minutes. how long would it take the older machine to do the job alone?
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Question 394132: At present, the sum of the parents' ages is twice the sum of the children's ages. five years ago,the sum of the parent's ages was 4 times the sum of the children's ages. fifteen years hence, the sum of the parent's ages will beequal to the sum of the children's ages. how many children are there?
this question is really difficult. i am having trouble solving this. thank you
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Question 393456: Faith mixes 14 liters of 12% acid solution with a 30% acid solution which results in an 18% acid solution.
If x represents the number of liters of 30% acid solution used, which equation can be used to find the number of liters of 30% acid solution in the mixture?
Then how to solve... :)
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Question 395026: The point on a coordinate line corresponding to the root of 2 may be determined by constructing a right triangle with sides of length 1. Determine the points that correspond to the root of 3, and the root of 5, respectively. Use the pythagorean theorem. This question is in the precalculus functions and graphs textbook.
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Question 395040: I have a juice concentrate that is 90% juice and 10% water. I want to take that concentrate and make it into a 50% juice concentrate. How much water do I add? In addition, if I added sugar would that alter the % of the concentrate and if so by how much. Is there a formula for both of the above?
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Question 395132: Please can you help me with the equation to solve the following word problem:
A Chemist is making a new cleaning product by mixing 2 solutions. How many litres of a 35% solution should be added to the 15% solution to obtain 8 litres of a cleaning solution with 20% concentration?
Thanking you in advance for your assistance.
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Question 395146: 1. the sum of the digits f a two-digit number is 11. when the digits are reversed, the new number is increased by 20 which is twice the original number. find the original number.
2. the units digit of a two-digit number is 3 less than its tens digit. if the number is divided by the sum of its digits, the quotient is 6 and the remainder is 8. find the number.
pls help me!
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Question 395146: 1. the sum of the digits f a two-digit number is 11. when the digits are reversed, the new number is increased by 20 which is twice the original number. find the original number.
2. the units digit of a two-digit number is 3 less than its tens digit. if the number is divided by the sum of its digits, the quotient is 6 and the remainder is 8. find the number.
pls help me!
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