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Question 100632: this is a list of ingredients to make 16 brownies. use this list to answer both questions:
2/3 cup butter
5 squares (1 ounce ea) unsweetened chocolate
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 eggs
1 cup flour
1. How much sugar is needed to make 8 brownies?
2. What is the greatest # of brownies that can be made if baker only has 1 cup of butter

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Question 100507: How many liters of 80% alcohol must be mixed with 40 liters of 70% alcohol to produce a mixture that is 75% alcohol?
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Question 100790: Paint costing $18 per gallon is to be mixed with $2 per gallon thinner to make 48 gallons of a paint that can be sold for $14 per gallon. How much paint thinner should be used?
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Question 100823: Northwestern Memorial Hospital is planning an advertising campaign. It cost $3000 each time a television ad is aired and $2000 each time a radio ad is aired. The administrator wants to air 60 more television ads than radio asds. If the total cost of airing the ads is $580,000, then how many ads of each ype will be aired?
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Question 100827: A bag of peanuts is worth $0.24 less than a bag of cashews. Equal amounts of peanuts and cashews are used to make 44 bags of a mixture that sells for $1.45 per bag. How much is a bag of cashews worth?

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Question 100959: A Certain Chain saw requires a fuel mixture of 5.5% oil and the remainder gasoline. How many liters of 2.5% mixture and how many of 9% mixture must be combined to produce 40.0 liters of 5.5% mixture.
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Question 100891: A 20 gallon salt solution is 30% salt. What is the greatest number of gallons of water that can be evaporated so the solution is still less than 45% salt?
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Question 101027: A pharmacist is adked to give a customer 4.5 milliters of an antibiotic over a period of 36 hrs. If the antibiotic is to be given every 4 hrs starting immediately, how much antibiotic should be given in each dose.
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Question 101001: Bruce invested some money in the Thomas 300 fund and $3000 more than that amount in the Thomas 400 fune. For the year he was in the funds, the 300 fund paid 18% simple interest and the 400 fund paid 15% simple interest. If the income for the two investments totaled $3750 for one year, then how much did he invest in each fund.
Please advise...I don't even know where to begin.
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Question 101204: A fuel distributor has 161,798 gallons of fuel with 1% sulfur content, which exceeds pollution control standards of 0.6% sulfur content. How many gallons of fuel oil with a 0.1% sulfur content must be added to the 161,798 gallons to obtain fuel oil that complies with the pollution control standards? Round up to the next higher gallon.

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Question 101194: Two tests only: A professor counts his midterm as 2/3 of the grade and his final as 1/3 o f the grade.A student scored only 64 points on the midterm.What range of scores on his final exam would he need to put his average between 70 and 79 inclusive. (Solve using a compound inequality)
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Question 101245: admission for a college baseball game is $6 for box seats, $5 for the grandstand, and $3 for the bleachers. The total receipts for one evening were $9000. There were 100 more grandstand tickets sold than box seat tickets. Twice as many bleacher tickets were sold as box seat tickets. How many tickets of each type were sold?
Can anyone help me set this equation up?
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Question 101300: 5floz. of a 2% alcohol solution was mixed with 11floz. of a 66% alcohol solution. Find the concentrationof the new mixture.
I need to know how to set the problem up! thanks
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Question 101750: the nut house sells walnuts for $4.00 a pound and cashews for $7.00 a pound. how many pounds of CASHEWS should be mixed with 10 pounds of walnuts to obtain a mixture that sells for $5.50 a pound? how do i figure out how many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the 10 pounds of walnuts?
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Question 101790: Lauren wants to mix 5 liters of 7% milk with skim- milk(0%fat) to produce a mixture of 2 46/47% milk. How much skim-milk should Lauren add?
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Question 101798: A chemist mixed some 15% peroxide solution ith some 6% peroxide solution to make 300 ML of a 9% peroxide solution. How many milliliters of the 15% solution was used?

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Question 101801: A biker mixes 11 pounds of raisens that cost $2.30 per pound with peanuts that cost $4.50 per pound to make a mixture that cost $3.29 per pound. How many pounds of peanuts did the biker use?
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Question 101900: PLEASE HELP ME FIND THE ANSWER TO: 7X+15Y=39 X-3Y=-20
THE CHAPTER IS CALLED SOLVING SYSTEMS USING ELIMINATION
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Question 102198: How many tons of hay at $125 per ton and $75 per ton must be purchased to have 100 tons of hay worth $9000?
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Question 102198: How many tons of hay at $125 per ton and $75 per ton must be purchased to have 100 tons of hay worth $9000?
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Question 102198: How many tons of hay at $125 per ton and $75 per ton must be purchased to have 100 tons of hay worth $9000?
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Question 102218: A student has a total of 244 points from 3 tests. The first test score was 20 more than the second test score. The sum of the second and third test scores was 60 points more than the first test score. Find each test score.
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Question 102223: A coffee merchant combines coffee costing $5.20/lb with coffee costing $3.00/lb. How many pounds of each should be used to make 40 lbs. of a blend costing $4.00/lb?

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Question 102182: A student mixed 50 ml of a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution with 30 ml of a 12% hydrogen peroxide solution. Find the percent concentration of the resulting mixture. Round to the nearest tenth percent.
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Question 101977: A car radiator has a capacity of 16qts and is filled w/a 25% antifreeze solution. How much must be drained off and replaced w/pure antifreeze to obtain a 40% antifreeze solution?
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Question 102401: I cant figure this one out, please help. A chemist has 60g of solution that is 70% acid. how much water should be added to make a solution that is 40% acid. Thanks!
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Question 97189: Bob wants to build a uniform-width sidewalk that surrounds a square-shaped play area. The play area measures fourteen feet on each side. He has enough materials to cover 93 square feet. How wide should he make the sidewalk?
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Question 102430: Joseph mixed a certain amount of 10% isopropyl mixture with 6o gallons of a 20% isopropyl solution and the resulting mixture is 16% isopropyl. How much of the 10% isopropyl did he add?
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Question 102651: A 6-quarts radiator contains a 20% antifreeze solution. How much of the solution needs to be drained out and replaced with pure antifreeze in order to raise the solution to 60% antifreeze?
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Question 102698: Two largest stadiums with the largest capacities are Marshfield stadium and Bowden stadium. Marshfield stadium has a capacity of 6,053 more than Bowden. If the combined capacity for the two stadiums is 210,355, find the capacity for each stadium.
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Question 102512: how many ounces of pure water must be added to 75 ounce of a 20% salt solution to make a salt solution which is 15% salt?
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Question 103123: Help!!
How much of a 40% antifreeze solution must a mechanic mix with an 80% antifreeze solution if 20 gallons of a 50% antifreeze solution are needed?
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Question 103174: how many gallons of a 5% acid solution should be mixed with 30 gallons of a 10% acid solution to obtain a mixture that is 8% acid?
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Question 103174: how many gallons of a 5% acid solution should be mixed with 30 gallons of a 10% acid solution to obtain a mixture that is 8% acid?
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Question 103148: radiator holds 5 gallons. The coolant in the radiator is a mixture of antifreeze and water. Presently, 40% of the mixture is pure antifreeze. The proper mixture to prevent freezing and rust formation is when antifreeze is 50% of the mixture. The radiator is now full to the top. In order to add antifreeze, some of the present mixture must be drained out to make room. How much mixture should be drained out to make just enough room to add the correct amount of pure antifreeze to give a resulting mixture in the radiator of 50%?
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Question 103274: Regular marbles sell at 100 for $2.00. Large marbles (shooters) sell at 25 for $2.00. To the nearest whole marble, how many of each kind should be used to make a package of 100 marbles selling for $3?
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Question 103275: Bologna sells for $1.50 a pound. Salami sells for $2.50 a pound. How much of each should be used to have ten pounds of a mixture of both selling for $1.75 a pound?
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Question 103295: How many pounds of 70% Columbian coffee must be added to ten pounds of 90% Columbian coffee to have p% Columbian coffee?
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Question 103233: How many liters of a solution containing 22% sugar and how many liters of another solution containing 31% sugar must be mixed together to make 680 liters of solution containing 27% sugar?
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Question 103624: A radiator holds 4 gallons of fluid. If it is fullwith a 20% solution how muchfluid should be drained and replaced with a 70% antifreeze mixture to result in a 50% mixture of antifreeze?
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Question 103607: how do i solve this problem?
Gigi's kids love honey-sweetened cerel. She mixes the hone-sweetened cereal with the unsweetened version of the same cereal. From experience, she knows that the misture is perfect whenthe amount of honey-sweetened cereal is exactly 40% of the mix. Her husband, Chase, has just mixed together a 14oz package of unsweetened cereal and a 32oz package of sweetened cereal. how much more unsweetened cereal does Gigi need to mix in to make th emix 40% sweetened and 60% unsweetened?
(i would show what i worked on, but i don't know how to start it and what to do.)
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Question 103850: How many pounds of seed worth $0.60 a pound must be mixed with 300 pounds of seed worth $0.35 a pound to produce a mixture worth $0.50 per pound?

Thanks so much!!!
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Question 103873: 50Ml= how much litres?
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