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Question 513012: 1500 lbs of brazilian coffee which sells at $3.80 per pound are mixed with 800 pounds of Jamacian Blue Mountain coffee which sells for $14.00 per pound. How should we price the blend if we mix the two amounts of coffee?
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Question 512980: How many liters of a 60% solution should be added to 50 liters of a 30% solution to obtain a 40% solution?
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Question 513036: how many liters of baking soda must be added to 240 liters of a 20% baking soda solution to get a 60% baking soda solution
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Question 513554: A goldsmith mixed 10 grams of a 50% gold alloy with 40 grams of 15% gold alloy. What is the percent concentration of the resulting alloy?
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Question 513472: AN alloy containing 40% gold and an alloy containing 70% gold are to be mixed to produce 50 pounds of an alloy containing 60% gold. How much of each alloy is needed?
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Question 513398: How many liters each of a 15% antifreeze solution and a 30% antifreeze solution must be mixed to make 6 liters of a 20% antifreeze solution?
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Question 513344: two types of fertilizer are being used, one costs 14 dollars per pound and the other is 18 dollars per pound. if the mixture endes with a total of 200 pounds and costs 15 dollars per pound how much of each type is used?
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Question 513657: a merchant has coffee worth $60 a pound that she wishes to mix with 50 pounds of coffee worth $90 a pound to get a mixture that can be sold for $70 a pound. How many pounds of the $60 coffee should be used?
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Question 513849: A chemist needs 190 milliliters of a 74% solution but has only 60% and 98% solutions available. Find how many milliliters of each that should be mixed to get the desired solution.
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Question 514106: The price of gold was $2.70 per ounce and the price of silver was $5.00 per ounce. Suppose gold and silver were mixed to obtain 15 ounces of an alloy worth $164 per ounce. Let g represent the amount of gold used in the alloy.
gold- g (number of ounces)
silver- 15-g (number of ounces)
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Question 514144: How many ounces of a 10% alcohol solution must be added to 40 ounces of a 25% solution to reduce it to a 15% solution?
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Question 514144: How many ounces of a 10% alcohol solution must be added to 40 ounces of a 25% solution to reduce it to a 15% solution?
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Question 514172: Soybean meal is 6% protein and corn meal is 9% protein . How many pounds of each should be mixed together to get a 350-lb mixture that is 12% protein?
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Question 514185: Please help me solve this equation 5x + y equals 18.
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Question 514185: Please help me solve this equation 5x + y equals 18.
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Question 514224: the price of a orange is 12 for $1.80 how much will 5 oranges cost
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Question 514225: A 90 pound mixture of two different types of nuts costs $370. If type A costs $3 a pound and type B costs $5 a pound, how many pounds of each type were used?
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Question 514268: can you make 50 mL of a 35% acid solution with 32 mL of a 45% solution and 18 mL of a 15% solution? explain
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Question 514329: how many liters of a mixture containing 80% alcohol solution should be added to 5 liters of a 20% solution to yield a 30% solution?
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Question 514407: A coffee manufacturer wants to market a new blend of coffee that will cost $6.00 per pound, by mixing coffee A at $5.00 per pound with coffee B at $8.00 per pound. If the total weight is 400 pounds, how many pounds of coffee A will she need?
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Question 514520: Two planes leave the same airport at the same time in opposite directions. One is going 50 mph faster than the other. In 30 minutes the planes are 275 miles apart. What are their speeds?
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Question 514555: a butcher mixes 12 lb of ground pork at $1.25 per pound with 24 lb of ground beef at $2 per pound to sell as meat loaf mix. What should be the cost per pound of the mixture
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Question 514636: The left and right pages of a book are two consecdutive integers whose sum is 469. Find these two page numbers.

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Question 514707: If 3/4 is added to three times a number, the result is 1/2 subtracted from twice the number. Find the number.
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Question 515075: A cargo van that is 6 feet high 6 feet wide 10 feet long how many boxes 1 cubic foot in volume can fit in the van?
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Question 515163: how many gallons of 90 percent antifreeze solution must be mixed with 100 gallons of 10 percent antifreeze solution to get a mixture that is 80 percent antifreeze
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Question 515168: Alyssa is a chemist with Gemco Pharmaceutical Company. She needs to prepare 12 ounces of a 9% hydrochloric acid solution. The only solutions she currently has available are 4% and 12% hydrochloric acid. How much should she use of each solution to obtain the needed solution? Use variables and representation if possible.
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Question 515159: A package of raisins weighs 10 ounces, if 3 cups of raisins weighs one pound, how many packages will the baker need which calls for 15 cups of raisins?
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Question 515491: An automobile radiator contains 16L of antifreeze and water. This mixture is 30% antifreeze. How much of this mixture should be drained and replaced with pure antifreeze so that the mixture will be 50% antifreeze?
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Question 515538: A chemist wants to make 44 mL of a 16% acid solution by mixing a 10% acid solution and an 18% acid solution. How many milliliters of each solution should the chemist use?
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Question 515682: tony's age was 1 year greather than 1/2 year of Dions. what was the age of the boys
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Question 515696: A solution of 54% fertilizer is to be mixed with a solution of 27% fertilizer to form 135 liters of a 49% solution. How many liters of the 54% solution must be used?
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Question 515695: A tank contains 8000L of a solution that is 40%acid. How much water should be
added to make a solution that is 30% acid?
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Question 515871: A laboratory technician prepares 200 mL of 35% ethyl alcohol from a 95% ethyl alcohol stock solution.
Determine, to the nearest mL, the amount of 95% ethyl alcohol that is needed.
Determine, to the nearest mL, the amount of distilled water that is added.
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Question 516009: If someone can eat 5 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups in 5 minutes, how long will it take her to eat 115 Reese's Cups?
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Question 516258: I have already finished 26 problems, this is the last one on my assignment and I'm stuck, please help. Twenty pounds of trail mix are made by mixing 10 pounds of raisins worth $3 per pound with peanuts worth $4 per pound and M&M's worth $5 per pound. How many pounds of peanuts must be used if the mixture is to be worth $3.79 per pound?
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Question 516359: a chemist has two solutions of h2so4. one has 40% concentration and the other has a 25% concentration. how many liters of solution must be mixed to obtain 96 liters of a 27% solution
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Question 516357: a chemist has a 10 ml of a 30% acid solution. how many millilters of pure acid must be added to obtain a 50% solution?
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Question 516387: A metallurgist has one alloy containing 25% copper and another containing 62% copper. How many pounds of each alloy must he use to make 45 pounds of a third alloy containing 34% copper?
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Question 516393: 500gallon heating tank at 20% ethanol. You need it to be a 40% ethanol solution. You can only add 100% ethanol. How the 'blank'
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Question 516433: A 40% solution of sulfuric acid is created by diluting a 25ml solution of 88% sulfuric acid with water. How much water must be added to the 25ml 88% solution to obtain the 40% sulfuric acid solution?
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Question 516521: How many liters of a 20% chemical solution must be mixed with 6 liters of a 15% chemical solution to give a 10% solution?
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