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Question 869293: A candy distributor needs to mix a 10% fat-content chocolate with a 40% fat-content chocolate to create 100 kilograms of a 16% fat-content chocolate. How many kilograms of each kind of chocolate must they use?
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Question 869338: How much of a 50% antifreeze solution must a mechanic mix with a 70% antifreeze solution if 20 gallons of a 65% antifreeze solution are needed?

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Question 868452: The owner of a local chocolate shop wants to develop a new trail mix. How many pounds of chocolate-covered peanuts worth $5 a pound should be mixed with 10 pounds of granola bites worth $2 a pound to get a mixture worth $3 per pound?
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Question 869714: What is the midpoint between (-8, 5) and (2, -2)?

(-5, 1.5)
(-5, 3.5)
(-6, 3)
(-3, 1.5)
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Question 869847: A 10% chlorine mixture is to be mixed to 25% of chlorine mixture to obtain 30 gallon of 20 % how many gallons of each can be used ?
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Question 870136: One solution is 60% acid and another is 15% how much would be needed of each to make 300 L at 50% acid if someone could show me how to figure out the answer it would be great
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Question 870218: Please Help!!!what is the formula? every day we sell twice as much regular milk as light milk and skim milk. Identify the variables and write the formula.
A recipe calls for 2 eggs for every 3 cups of flour. Write the formula that represents this relationship?
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Question 870227: A pharmacist wants to make a 200-milliliter salt solution that is 2% salt by mixing a 5% salt solution with pure water. How many milliliters of the two solutions are required.

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Question 870246: A 90 gallon of 4% fat is mixed with non-fat (0%) milk to make 1% milk. How much non-fat milk is needed
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Question 870314: A person invested some amount at the rate of 12% simple interest and the remaining at 10%. He received yearly an interest of Rs.130. Had he interchanged the amounts invested ,he would have received an interest of Rs.134. How much money did he invest at different rates?
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Question 870394: a chemist needs 130 milliliters of 59% solution but has only 44% and 83% solutions available. find how many milliliters of each that should be mixed to get the desired solution.
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Question 870481: if a 750ml bottle of Merlot wine cost $7.99, what does it cost per fluid ounce?

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Question 870656: How much is 20% of 5 liters? We are trying to mix water with a solvent. My wife insists that we should be using 5 liters of water to one liter of solvent.
I cannot make her understand, but if she sees an answer from someone else she might accept it.
Thank you from France,
R. Notto
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Question 870808: A food company reduced the amount of salt in one of their food products from 700 mg to 630 mg. what is the percent decrease in the amount of salt in this food product?
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Question 870869: Jane invests $9885 into two accounts. A savings account earns 6% interest, while a money market accunt earns 9.5% interst. After one year she made $696.35 interest from both accounts. How much did she invest into each account?
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Question 871044: A 10% solution of fertilizer is to be mixed with a 70% solution of fertilizer in order to get 30 gallon of a 50% solution. how many gallons of the 10% solution and 70% solution should be mixed.
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Question 871059: A mixture of 4% disinfectant solution is to be made from 8% and 2% disinfectant solutions. How much of each solution should be used if 33 gallons of 4% solution are needed?

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Question 871118: a metal recycling plant has some scrap metal that is 44% copper.it also has some other scrap meaflthat is 29% copper the scrap metal is melted together and produces 1510g of metal that is 41% copper how many grams of the 29% copper the scrap metal were mixed with the 44% copper
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Question 871290: potatoes are $1.75 per pound. total of sales of potatoes= $1,420. how many pounds were sold?
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Question 871271: What is the price per pound, to the nearest cent, if 5 pounds of flour cost $1.62?
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Question 871547: Write the algebraic expression that is suggested in the word
statement or problem:
In the first stage, 1 cell divides to produce 2 cells. In the
second stage, the 2 cells divide to produce to produce 4 cells.
In the third stage, the 4 cells divide to produce 8 cells, and
the process continues. How many cells are produced in the nth
stage?

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Question 871590: How many ounces of a 31% alcohol solution and a 41% alcohol solution must be combined to form 40 ounces of a 40% alcohol solution?
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Question 872008: A vendor sells hot dogs and bags of chips. A customer buys 2 hot dogs and 2 bags of chips for $7.50. Another customer buys 5 hot dogs and 3 bags of chips for $17.25. Find the cost of each item
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Question 872001: A landscaper wants to use a fertilizer blend that is 8% nitrogen. He will mix a 10% nitrogen fertilizer with a 5% nitrogen fertilizer to get 150 lbs. of the 8% blend. How many pounds of each type should be mixed to get the desired solution?
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Question 872012: A chemist needs 110 milliliters of a 37.4% solution but has only 10% and 43% solutions available. Find out how many milliliters of each solution should be mixed to get the desired solution
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Question 872030: A landscaper wants to use a fertilizer blend that is 8% nitrogen. He will mix a 10% nitrogen fertilizer with a 5% nitrogen fertilizer to get 150 lbs. of the 8% blend. How many pounds of each type should be mixed to get the desired solution?
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Question 872026: A boat can travel 20 miles downstream in 2 hours. The same boat can travel 12 miles upstream in 6 hours. Find the speed of the boat in still water and the speed of the current.
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Question 872384: Please help me with following. How do I set it up?
Sample has 4oz of A and 3 oz of B material. Have to add C to this mixture to make a final mixture that is 50%A and 50%B. C is composed of 33%A and 66%B. How much C (oz)have to be added?
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Question 872401:
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Question 872483: radoactive iodine is frequently used in tracer studies involving the thyroid gland. The substance decays according to the equation A(t)=Aoa^-t where Ao is the initial dose and t is the time in days. Find a assuming the half life id 8 days
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Question 872625: If you have 24 chocolates and they are $2.50 each. How much would it be to get all of them ?
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Question 872675: A makes 100 garlands in 25 minutes and B makes them in 18 minutes. They work together for 5 minutes then B leaves. In how many minutes can A complete the remaining work?
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Question 872674: A makes 100 garlands in 25 minutes and B makes them in 18 minutes. They work together for 5 minutes then B leaves. In how many minutes can A complete the remaining work?
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Question 872723: How many liter of a 90% acid solution much be mixed with a 25% acid solution to get 650 L of 80% acid solution?
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Question 872723: How many liter of a 90% acid solution much be mixed with a 25% acid solution to get 650 L of 80% acid solution?
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Question 872887: A biologist has a 30% salt solution and a 60% salt solution. How many gallons of the 30% salt solution should be added to the 60% salt solution to make 24 gallons of a 40% salt solution?
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Question 872913: An alloy weighing 40 lbs. is 10% tin. The alloy was made by mixing a 15% tin alloy and a 8% tin alloy. How many pounds of each alloy (to the nearest tenth) were used to make the 10% alloy?
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Question 872987: A square has four sides which are all the same length.each angle is a right angle what is the area of a square whose side is 6cm in length
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Question 873097: Mr Greycloud works in the lab at a pharmaceutical company. He needs to make 27 liters of a 25% acid soluction to test a new product. His supplier only ships a 44% and a 17% solution. Mr Greycloud decides to make the 25% solution by mixing the 44% solution with the 17% solution. How much of the 44% solution will Mr Greycloud need to use?
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Question 873155:
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Question 873199: One alloy contains 80% gold and another alloy contains 55% gold. The two alloys are combined to make 40 grams of an alloy that is 70% gold. How many grams of the 80% alloy are used?
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Question 873203: How many pounds of water must be evaporated from 50 pounds of a 3% salt solution so that the remaining solution will be 5% salt?
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Question 873488: In an alloy of 150 pounds of zinc and copper there are 100 pounds of copper. How much copper must be added so that the alloy may be 10% zinc.
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