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Question 849183: Kim need to add a 6% saline solution to an iv bag that contains 20 cubic centimeters of a 10% saline solution. How many cubic centimeters of 6% saline solution must she add to create an 8% solution?
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Question 852401: Arvin and Mariah attend summer camp. Everyone at the camp helps with the cooking and cleanup at meal times. One morning, Arvin and Mariah are in charge of making orange juice for all the campers. They plan to make the juice by mixing water and frozen orange juice concentrate. To find the mix that tastes the best they experiment.
Mix a 2 cups concentrate 3Cups of cold water
Mix B 1 cup concentrate 4 cups cold water. Mix C 4 cups concentrate 8 cups water. Mix D 3 cups concentrate 5 cups cold water.
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Question 852668: What quantity of a 50% acid solution must be mixed with a 20% solution to produce 600 mL of a 40% solution?

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Question 852704: What is the correct procedure to solve The mixture calls for 75% pure water and 25% concentrated vitamin drink. How many gallons of water should you add to 16 gallons of concentrated vitamin drink?
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Question 852859: a chemist has c centiliters of an 85% alcohol solution. Write an expression to show how much pure alcohol she has now.
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Question 852915: A chemist needs to mix an 18% acid solution with a 45% acid solution to obtain a 12 liters mixture consisting of 36% acid. How many liters of 45% acid solution must be used?

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Question 852956: want to confirm my answer here on mixture quesiton for homework
how many gallons of 30% salt solution must be added to 5 gallons of 10% salt solution to yield a solution of 17.5% salt? Whats throwing me is how to set up the 17.5% not knowing how much of that I need.
My answer was 3 gallons.
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Question 852958: How many liters of a 12% acid solution and a 20% acid solution should be mixed in order to get 4 liters of a 15% acid solution?
my answer was 1 liter of 12% with 4 liters of 20%

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Question 853099: How much of an 18% solution of sulfuric acid should be added to 360 mL of a 10% solution to obtain a 15% solution?
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Question 853076: How many gallons of a 24% saline solution (NaCl) must be mixed with 5 gallons of pure water to make a 9% solution?
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Question 853076: How many gallons of a 24% saline solution (NaCl) must be mixed with 5 gallons of pure water to make a 9% solution?
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Question 853289: what must be added to x^2 - x + 4 to male it equal to (x+2)^2

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Question 853526: Matthew has two different stocks. One of the stocks is worth twice as much per share as the other. He Has 17 shares of the more valuable stock and 41 share of the other stock. His total assets in stocks is $3600. How much is the less expensive stock worth per share
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Question 852408: Karla drove at an average speed of 35 mi/h from her home in Portland to visit her sister in Oklahoma City. She stayed in Oklahoma City 10 hours, and on the trip back averaged 50 mi/h. She returned home 47 hours after leaving. How many miles is Portland from Oklahoma City?
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Question 853750: 45litters alcohol with 15% water to make 10% water how much alochol to be added
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Question 853825: 6 qts of a 72% alcohol solution was mixed with 12 qts. of a 36% alcohol solution. Find the concentration of the new mixture.
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Question 853897: If 1 gal of liquid is $27.00, how much would 2 oz. of liquid be?
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Question 854041: a 40% acid solution is to be mixed with a 60% solution to get 100 liters of a 55% solution. How many liters of each solution should be used?
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Question 854105: Mix W
5 Cups Concentrate/8 cups cold water
Suppose you make only 1 cup of Mix W. How much water and how much concentrate do you need.
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Question 854159: A health-food store mixes a breakfast cereal containing granola and dried bananas. Plain granola costs $6.00 per pound. Dried banana slices cost $4.00 per pound. The store makes up 40 pounds of the new cereal and sells it at $5.80 per pound. How much of each ingredient will go into the 40-pound mixture
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Question 854156: A fruit company makes a snack containing dried apples and raisins. Dried apples cost .38 per ounce, and raisins cost .28 per ounce. To make a 10 ounce snack that will sell for .34 an ounce, how much of each dried fruit will be used? (hint: keep all money amounts in cents)
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Question 854095: the manager of a store selling tea plans to mix a more expensive tea that costs $7 per pound with a less expensive tea that costs $2 per pound to create a 130-pound that will sell for $4.00 per pound. How many pounds of each type of tea are required?
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Question 854341: Produce company has 3600 lb. of peaches to package into boxes.
Half of the boxes will be loose filled, each containing 20lb of peaches and the others will be packed with 8 lb. clamshells, each containing 2.2 lb. of peaches.

Determine the muber of boxes and the number of clamshells that are required.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Lisa
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Question 854378: a store has some dresses that cost $38 the manager wants to sell them at a profit of 20 % of it cost what price should the store charge for each piece

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Question 854436: How much water should be added to 85ml of 40% acid solution to dilute it to a 20% acid solution?
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Question 854445: The Drama club receives $1603.5 by selling 399 tickets to the opening night of the musical. If the full price of a ticket is $6.50 and discount tickets for students and seniors/students are $1.00 each, how many discounted senior/students were sold?
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Question 854606: hi tutors
a bottle of hydrogen peroxide (solute) dissolved in water (solvent) has a concentration of 48%. If the amount of dissolved hydrogen peroxide is .32 liter, how much solution is in the bottle? rounded to the nearest hundredth
Thank you
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Question 854636: a chemist has 10 cm^3 of 20% salt solution. how many cubic centimeter of water should she add to produce a 5% salt solution?

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Question 854754: A student mixed 125 grams of sugar, 250 grams of water, and 5 grams of flavoring. What is the mass of the solution?
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Question 854742: A farmer has 100 gallons of 70% pure disinfectant. He wishes to mix it with disinfectant which is 90% pure to obtain 75% pure disinfectant. How much of the 90% disinfectant must he use?
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Question 854899: well i have to change this problem to systems of linear equations
lou wants to make a coffee mixture to sell. He is going to sumatra coffee which costs $2.50 per pound with columbian coffee which costs $3.75 per pound. he wants to make 50 pounds of mix and he wants to cost of mix to be $3.35 per pound. of each will he need
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Question 855231: 1 solution is 23 acid and another solution is 57 percent acid how many milliliters of each should be mixed to obtain 34 millimeters of a solution that is 32 percent acid
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Question 854924: One chemical bath is being heated up by a heater. (1) 5 min later:28c (2) 20 min later:35c (3) 23 min later:44c (4) 28 min later:51c What is the estimated temp 1 hour later?
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Question 855342: A 40 percent acid solution is to be mixed with a 70 percent acid solution to make 120 liters of 50percent solution. How many liters of each solution is needed
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Question 855461: Hi! Please help me to solve this:
Enough salt was added to 30kilos of a 10% salt solution to increase the salt concentration to 25%. How many kilos of salt were added?
Thank you!
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Question 855647: I was told to mix 1 part oil to 30 parts gas, how much oil would I mix if I was using 2 liters of gas

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Question 855647: I was told to mix 1 part oil to 30 parts gas, how much oil would I mix if I was using 2 liters of gas

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Question 855626: I need to make a cleaning solution that is 80% water and 20 % alcohol using a 12 ounce spray bottle. How much of each would I use?
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Question 855692: An 18-quart car radiator is full of a solution that is 23% antifreeze and 77% water. The car's owner wants to increase the percentage of antifreeze in the radiation to 44% by draining some (but not all) of the original solution from the radiator, and replacing it with pure antifreeze. How much original solution should be drained out and replaced with pure antifreeze to accomplish his goal?
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Question 855690: A 15-quart car radiator is full of a solution that is 55% antifreeze and 45% water. The owner of the car wants to decrease the percentage of antifreeze in the radiator to 40% by draining some (but not all) of the original solution from the radiator, and replacing it with pure water. How much original solution should be drained out and replaced with pure water to accomplish his goal?
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Question 855689: A 20-quart truck radiator is full of a solution that is 15% antifreeze and 85% water. The truck's owner wants to increase the percentage of antifreeze in the radiator to 40% by draining some (but not all) of the original solution from the radiator, and replacing it with pure antifreeze. How much original solution should be drained out and replaced with pure antifreeze to accomplish his goal?
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Question 855796: How many pounds of a 70% copper alloy must be melted with how many pounds of a 90% copper alloy to obtain 100 pounds of an 81% copper alloy?
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Question 855927: a recipe calls for using 3/4 cup of brown sugar for each 2/3 cup of white sugar. how many cups of brown sugar are used per cup of white sugar
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