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Question 764847: How many ml of 20 percent acid should be added to pure acid to make 40 ml of 35 percent acid?

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Question 764982: 1/4 of what number decreased by 5 = 32

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Question 765002: Please help me solve this word problem as I don't understand how to solve mixture problems.
What quantity of 70 per cent acid solution must be mixed with a 25 solution to produce 972 mL of a 50 per cent solution?
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Question 765011: 2) Kevin made 12 gallons of milk containing 45% cream and 55% skim milk. Christopher took out cream from the mix to make a new mixture that has 34% cream and 66% skim milk. how much cream did he take out?
4) Sarah wants to make 60% citric acid . If she has 1/2 liters of 0% citric acid, how many liters of 70% citric acid should she add?
12) the kayla's and cody's icew cream store sells ice cream shakes made from ice cream and milk. The milk used has 2% fat and the ice cream has 30% fat. Anna is in charge of making shakes. Today's mix had a total of 23% fat. If Anna used 3 quarts of milk, how many quarts does the entire mixture contain?
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Question 765106: If 6 parts of mango juice are mixed with 10 parts of water, what part of the mixture is mango juice?
I answered 3/5. Is it right?
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Question 765254: 4) Natalie has a brand of peanut oil, which has 30% oil. Stephanie has a brand of olive oil, which has 70% oil. Natalie and Stephanie combined their oils and made 1 5/12 quarts of a new oil called nutlive oil. if the nutlive oil contains 51 3/17% oil, how many quarts of olive oil did they use?
1) Michael works at EdHelper Juice company which makes fruit juice. The company's most popular fruit juice contains 11% of real fruit juice and 89% of non-fruit juice. How much of non-fruit juice should be added to 11 liters of fruit juice to make the popular fruit juice?
4) Jacob has three liters of 80% acid. How much acid should he add to make a solution that is 85% acid?
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Question 765280: what would be the final concentration if you have a mixture of 6% of 125 ml, 4% of 225 ml, and 9% of 259ml
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Question 765281: We have 500 grams of a 10% salt solution. How many grams of water must be added to dilute the solution to form a 4% solution?

I have tried solving this, but I'm not sure if it's correct.
(2/100)*(500 + x) = 50
10 + (2/100)x = 50
(2/100)x = 50 - 10
X = 40/(2/100)
X = 200 grams.
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Question 765318: In order for coffee to be labeled "kona blend", it must contain at least 65% kona beans. Barking Dog Roasters has 50 pounds of 100% kona coffee beans. How much Sumatran coffee must they add to the kona beans if they wish to market the Kona coffee as kona blend?
has to be set up like
let x =
let y =
and equations thank you!
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Question 765293: How much pure sodium must be mixed with 5o quarts of a 65% sodium solution to get a 75% sodium solution?
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Question 765371: a hotel has 15 litre of milk.25 ml of milk is required to prepare a cup of coffe.how many cups of coffee can be made with the milk availble
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Question 765345: A pure fruit juice is made by mixing the juices of oranges and mangoes in the ratio of 9:2
If 605 litres of the juice are made calculate the number of litres of orange juice and mango juice used
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Question 765395: In a number of two digits, the sum of the digits are 14. If 29 is subtracted from the number the digits become equal. What is the number ?
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Question 765416: a lab assistant needs 15L of a 30% alcohol solution. She must mix a15% solution and a 40% solution. how many liters of each solution wikk be required?
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Question 765417: A container of mixed juice contains 1/3rd of orange juice, 20 ml of water and 40 ml
of sweet lime (Mausambi) juice. What is the total volume of the mixed juice?

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Question 765398: 1) Michael works at the EdHelper Juice company which makes juice. The company's most popular fruit juice contains 11% of real fruit juice and 89% of a non-fruit juice. How much of non-fruit juice shold be added to 11 liters of fruit juice to make the popular fruit juice?

3) Jacob has three liters of 80% acid. How much acid should he add to make a solution that is 85% acid?

10) Brianna has 55% silver alloy. Emma has a 25% silver alloy. They mellted their alloys to create 112 grams of a 40% silver alloy. How many grams was Brianna's alloy?
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Question 765470: one canned juice drink is 25% orange juice, another is 10% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed in order to get 15 liters that is 12% orange juice
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Question 765536: 2g + 14 + 5g = 8g - 3 + 8
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Question 765562: Please help me solve this rational equation 3/5 - 2/3= x/6
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Question 765576: Emily mixes peanuts costing $6.5 per pound with candy-chocolate costing $5.00 per pound. If a 2.5-pound bag cost Emily $14, how many pounds of peanuts and how many pounds of chocolate were in the mixture?
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Question 765610: Please help me to solve this problem : How much of 40% solution of alcohol and 80% solution should be mixed to give a reduced concentration of 16% solution?
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Question 765607: how much of a 40% solution of alcohol and how much of 80% solution should be mixed to give a reduced concentration of 16% solution?
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Question 765583: An herbalist has 30 oz of herbs costing $3 per ounce. How many ounces of herbs costing $2 per ounce should be mixed with these 30 oz of herbs to produce a mixture costing $2.50 per ounce?
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Question 765676: 3) Jacob has three liters of 80% acid. How much acid should he add to make a solution that is 85% acid?

2) How much water should be added to four liters of 70% alcohool to make s mixture of 28% alcohol?

4) Sarah wants to make 60% citric acid . If she has 1/2 liters of 0% citric acid, how many liters of 70% citric acid should she add?

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Question 765808: how many gallons of a 90 antifreeze solution must be mixed with 100 gallons of 25 antifreeze to get a mixture that is 80% antifreeze
you need ___ gallons?
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Question 765884: how much of a 15% solution must be added to 60ml of a 50% alcohol solution to get a 40% solution?
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Question 766061: "What quantity of 65% acid solution must be mixed with a 30% solution to produce 525 mL of a 50% solution?"
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Question 766213: 120ml of 8% saline solution is mixed with 80ml of 3% saline solution. Find % of concentration of the resulting mixture.
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Question 766188: If the recipe calls for a 3 oz weight serving and our population is 1500 how many pounds of product will it take to feed our population?
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Question 766283: You need a 55% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 770 mL of a 95% alcohol mixture. How much pure water will you need to add to obtain the desired solution?
A) Write an equation using the information as it is given above that can be used to solve this problem. Use x as your variable to represent the amount of pure water you need to use.

B) You will need HOW MANY mL of pure water to obtain HOW MANY mL of the desired 55% solution??
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Question 766455: How much water should be added to four liters of pure alcohol to make a mixture of 40% alcohol?
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Question 766454: jasmine wants to make 40% citric acid. If she has 1/2 liters of 0% citric acid, how many liters of 45% citric acid should she add?
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Question 766477: If you combine one pint of 1% milk and one pint of 2% milk what percentage of fat is the resulting quart? I say one and a half percent and my husband is convinced it is 3%.
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Question 766464: A store sells cashews for $4.40/lb and peanuts for $1.20/lb. How many lb of each can be bought to get exactly 3lb for $6. If possible please solve using system of equations.
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Question 766496: A store sells cashews for $4.40/lb and peanuts for $1.20/lb. How many of each can be bought to get exactly 3 lb for $6? If possible please use system of equations to solve.
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Question 766533: James needs to mix a 10% alcohol solution with a 60% alcohol solution to create 100 millileters of a 20% solution. How many millileters of each solution must James use?
A) Write an equation using the information as it is given above that can be used to solve this problem. Use as your variable to represent the quantity of 10% alcohol solution.
Equation:

B) Answer: James must mix HOW MANY millileters of 10% solution and HOW MANY millileters of 60% solution?
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Question 766553: how much water should be mixed with 12ml of alcohol to obtain 12% alcohol solution

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Question 766652: The kayla's and cody's ice cream store sells ice cream shakes made of ice cream and milk. The milk used has 2% fat and the ice cream had 30% fat. Anna is in charge of making shakes. Today's mix had a total of 23% fat. If Anna used three quarts of milk, how many quarts does the entire mixture contain?

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Question 766561: HOW TO MAKE 1:10 SOLUTION 9ML DI water and 1mL part of 0.1N HCL? AND 9ml part of DI water 1mL 0.1N NaOH? yvonne.bond@stjude.org
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Question 766516: The difference between two numbers is 25. The smaller number is 1/6th of the larger number. What is the value of the smaller number?
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Question 766823: what will be the price of 0.06kg of sugar at rate of rs 38 per kg

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Question 766832: If four litres of petrol containing 15% kerosine are added to another 7 litres of petrol containing 10% kerosine, what percentage of the petrol is kerosine?
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Question 767063: Two vessels contain mixture of alcohol and water. In one there is three times as much as alcohol as water; in the other, five times as much water as alcohol. How much must be drawn off from each to fill a third vessel which holds 7 gallons, in order that its contents may be half alcohol and half water?
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