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Question 616344: I have two problem on a quiz due tonight need simalar exaples to help me work my problems.
. A dehydrated patient needs a 2.6% saline IV. Unfortunately, the hospital only has bags of 8% and 2% saline solutions. How many liters of each of these solutions should be mixed together to yield 2 liters of the desired concentration?
. To buy both a new car and a new house, Tina sought two loans totaling $318,338. The simple interest rate on the first loan was 2.4%, while the simple interest rate on the second loan was 4.7%. At the end of the first year, Tina paid a combined interest payment of $14,761.81. What were the amounts of the two loans?
please help thanks mia
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Question 616787: At the Snack Shack, dried cherries cost $3.50 per pound. Dried apricots cost $1.50 per pound. The store's owner wants to make 10 pounds of cherry-apricot mixture that costs $2.70 per pound. How many pounds of cherries and apricots should the owner use to make the mixture?
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Question 616933: I have 2 mixture questions I am currently stuck on that are actually of the free tutor, "rrapalje" own webpage.
question 1: How much water must be added to a 50% alcohol solution to obtain 100L of a 10% solution?
question 2: 50 tickets where sold for a BBQ at a total of $219. Prices where $2.50 children, $3.50 youth, $5.00 adults. There were 10 more youth tickets than childrens tickets. How many of each tickets were sold?
If you could give me step by step of how to make the equations from the words I would be very great full. Many thanks, Jim.
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Question 616946: A new lab technician, on his first day on the job, drops his lab key into a large bottle of concentrated nitric acid, and key begins to dissolve. the mass of the key is 2.03 oz (1 oz=28.35g) and has a density of 6.347 g/cm^3. The acid dissolves the key at a rate of 0.00235 g/s. By the time the lab tech gets the key out of acid, 10.0 minutes have passed.What is the volume of the key by then?
I solved this
then but I feel like the answer is wrong.
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Question 616946: A new lab technician, on his first day on the job, drops his lab key into a large bottle of concentrated nitric acid, and key begins to dissolve. the mass of the key is 2.03 oz (1 oz=28.35g) and has a density of 6.347 g/cm^3. The acid dissolves the key at a rate of 0.00235 g/s. By the time the lab tech gets the key out of acid, 10.0 minutes have passed.What is the volume of the key by then?
I solved this
then but I feel like the answer is wrong.
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Question 616948: I have 4 oz of a 25% solution of a pesticide. I need to mix water with the pesticide to give me 32 ounces of a 0.2% solution.
How much water do I need?
How much of the 25% solution do I need to add to the water?
How did you find your answer.
Thank You
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Question 617108: You received an order to prepare 500 ml of a 0.6% KCl solution. Your pharmacy only has a 10% KCl solution in stock. How many milliliters of the stock KCl solution would you need to prepare this solution? How much distilled water do you need to add to produce the final product
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Question 617858: please help me solve this problem: A chemist has 6 liter of a 50% acid solution. How much water must be added to obtain a 20% acid solution.- i tryed with these two problems: 6+.50=y and 6(.50)+y= .20x but i don't get the right answer please help me try to figure out what i did wrong
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Question 618385: 5. How much pure antifreeze must be added to 12 gallons of
20% antifreeze to make a 40% antifreeze solution?
a.2 gallons
b.4 gallons
c.6 gallons
d.8 gallons
6. One computer printer can print a company's mailing labels in
40 minutes. A second printer would take 60 minutes to print the labels. How
long would it take the two printers, operating together, to print the labels?
a.30 minutes
b.24 minutes
c.50 minutes
d.32 minutes
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Question 618773: A teacher needs 1 liter of a solution of 5% HCL for an experiment. He only has a stock solution of 99% HCL, how much water (0% acid) and how much stock solution (99%) of HCL must he mix to get 1 liter 5% solution?
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Question 618736: Please Include: heading, equation, algebraic solution, and answer
A group of chemists are conducting an experiment to produce a new liquid material. Chemical A contains 15% sodium and the Chemical B contains 30% sodium. They mix the two samples, obtaining 600ml of a new chemical containing 22% sodium. How many ml of each sample must be mixed?
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