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Question 504567: Please help me with this equation: You have a total of $5000 invested in two simple interest accounts. On one account, the annual simple interest rate is 6%. On the second account, the annual simple interest rate is 8%. The total annual interest earned in one yar is $370. How much is invested in each account?
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Question 504652: How much 10% solution and how much 45% solution should be mixed together to make 100 gallons of 25% solution?
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Question 504987: How much pure acid should be mixed with four gallons of a 50% acid solution in order to get a 60% acid solution?
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Question 505087: an auto mechanic needs 24 gallons of ani-freeze with a 30 percent glycol concentration. he has on hand only anit-freeze with a 40 percent glycol concentration and one with a 10 percent glycol concentration. How much of the 40 percent should he mix with the 10 percent to get the 24 gallons of 30 percent solution he needs?
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Question 505120: find a number between 40 and 50 that is composite and whose prime factors add up to 15
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Question 505166: How much acid at 70% concentration must be added to 12 ounces at 40% concentration in order to obtain a mixture that is 50% acid?
-I know the answer will be closer to 40 than 70, but I'm just not sure how to work the problem out.
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Question 505302: Suppose that X liters of 38% acid solution are mixed with y liters of a 42% solution to obtain 100L of a 39% solution. One equation in a system for solving this problem is x+y=100. Which one of the following is the other equation? A. 42x+38y=0.39*100 B 0.38x+0.42y=0.39*100 C. 0.42x+0.38y=0.39*100 D. 38x+42y=39
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Question 505358: Carlos bought 14 pounds of sugar for 9 dollars . How many dollars did he pay per pound of sugar?

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Question 505669: Pure acid is to be added to a 5% acid solution to obtain 95L of 30% solution. What amounts of each should be used?
How many Liters of 100% acid should be used to obtain the solution?
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Question 505697: My algebra 2 question on my homework worksheet is this:
"A health clinic uses a solution of bleach to sterilize Petri dishes in which cultures are grown. The sterilization tank contains 100 gal of a solution of 2% ordinary household bleach mixed with pure distilled water. New research indicates that the concentration of bleach should be 5% for complete sterilization. How much of the solution should be drained and replaced with bleach to increase the bleach content to the recommended level?"
How would you solve that?
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Question 505734: it takes hank twice as long to build one table as it takes to build one chair. If it takes 30 hours to make a dining room set of 1 table and 4 chairs. how long does it take to make the table?
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Question 505748: A solution contains 60 oz. of water and 15 oz. of acid. If a 60% acid solution results from water evaporation, then how many ounces of water have evaporated?
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Question 505849: How many L of water is to be added to a 50% acid solution to obtain 40% acid solution?
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Question 505846: A bag of peanuts is worth $. 42 less than the same size of cashews. Equal amounts of peanuts and cashews are used to make 40 bags of a mixture that sells for $1.10 per bag. How much is a bag of cashews worth?

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Question 505955: If a tank takes 20,30, and 60 minutes by three pipes to fill up seperately, how many minutes will it take to fill up with all three pipes together?
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Question 506363: An automobile radiator holds 24 liters of fluid. There is currently a mixture in the radiator that is 70% antifreeze and 30% water. How much of this mixture should be drained and replaced by pure antifreeze so that the resulting mixture is 80% antifreeze?

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Question 506537: How much 5% hcl must be mixed with 60ml of 20% hcl to get a 10% solution?
I think that it would just be another 60ml, but I'm not sure.
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Question 506425: A 20-pound mixture of banana chips and dried apricots cost $6.89 per pound the mixture contains 6 pounds of banana chips that cost $1.99 per pound. what is the cost per pound of the dried apricots?.
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Question 506535: how many litters of a 40% alcohol solution must be mixed with 65% solution to obtain 20 liters of a 50% solution?
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Question 506747: a guy has coffee worth $60 a pound that he wishes to mix with 50 pounds of coffee worth $90 a pound to get a mixture that can b sold for $80 a pound. How many pounds of the $60 coffee should she use
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Question 507315: How many quarts of water [0% alcohol] need to be added to 50 quarts of 80% alcohol to obtain a 10% alcohol solution?
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Question 507315: How many quarts of water [0% alcohol] need to be added to 50 quarts of 80% alcohol to obtain a 10% alcohol solution?
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Question 507316: how many liters should be drained and replaced with pure antifreeze from a radiator containing 12 liters of 40 percent antifreeze to increase the concentration to 50 percent antifreeze.
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Question 507356: A large solar heating panel requires 120 gallons of a fluid that is 30% antifreeze. The fluid comes in either a 50% solution or a 20% solution. How many gallons of each should be used to prepare the 120 gallon solution.
My professor only wants us to set up the equation to solve, but not to actually solve. Thanks.
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Question 507559: normal body temperature is98.6 degress F . during an illness it rose 3.2 degressF . what was the new temperature?
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Question 507559: normal body temperature is98.6 degress F . during an illness it rose 3.2 degressF . what was the new temperature?
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Question 507560: A family read the odometer before starting a trip ., it read 27182.1 and they know they will be driving 227.8 m .What will it read at the end of the trip ?

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Question 507561: suppose a house in indianapolis with an index of 79 is valued at 96,000.Find what a similar house would cost in tampa with an index of 72.
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Question 508286: If you need 425mL of a .90% saline solution but only have 25.0% saline, how would you go about making the .90% solution? Do calculation and explain in words.
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Question 508314: The dosage of a medicine ordered by a doctor is 40 mL of a 16% solution. A nurse has available both a 20% solution and a 4% solution of this medicine. How many milliliters of each could be mixed to prepare this 40-mL dosage?
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Question 508089: A chemist has two solutions H2SO4. One has a 40% concentration and the other one has a 25% concentration. How many liters of each solution must be mixed to obtain 106 liters of a 36% solution?
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Question 508088: One solution is 10% acid, another solution is 30% acid. find the volume of each solution that must be used to get a final solution of 40 liters that is 18% acid.
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Question 508049: How many gallons of a liquid that is 40% alcohol must be mixed with 8 gallons of one that is 30% alcohol to obtain a mixture that is 35% alcohol?
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Question 508342: A tea mixture was made from 30lb of tea that cost $6.00 per pound and 70lb of tea that cost $3.20 per poumd.Find the cost per pound of the tea mixture?

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Question 508018: A chemistry student has a 15% hydrochloric acid solution and a 40% hydrochloric acid solution. How many liters of each should she mix to get 10 liters of a hydrochloric acid solution with a 30% acid concentration?
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Question 508935: A lab tech has one solution that is 45% acid and another that is 70 % acid. How much of each is needed to make 100 mL of a 65% acid solution?
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Question 508940: I have a 70% meat and30% meat need to get 37% but it has to weigh 3060pounds
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Question 508940: I have a 70% meat and30% meat need to get 37% but it has to weigh 3060pounds
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Question 508940: I have a 70% meat and30% meat need to get 37% but it has to weigh 3060pounds
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Question 509133: A 30 milliliter solution of acid in water contains 20% acid. How much acid is in the solution?
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Question 509281: Margo has 40 millimeters of 25% solution. how many millimeters of 60% solution should she add to obtain the required 30% solution?
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Question 509429: How much sand must be added to 250 kg of a cement mixture that is 22% sand to have a mixture that is 25% sand?
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Question 509098: I have a mixture prolem to find 15 milliliters of a solution that is 2% active ingredient and I have a 10% and 1% solotion in my stock. How do i get 2% solution?
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Question 509652: how many liters of a 25% alcohol solution must be mixed with a 12% solution to get 13L of a 15% solution?
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