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Question 886645: A pharmacist needs 100 milimeters of 50% alcohol solution. She has 30% alcohol solution and 80% alcohol solution available to mix. How many milimeters of each solution should be used?
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Question 886657: Dear tutor I really need ur help I newly moved to US and did not learn some topics and need help asap and would be so thankful for ur help. Here is my question 11ml of a saline solution was mixed with 4ml of a 55% saline solution to make a 77% saline solution. Find the percent concentration of the first solution.
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Question 886682: Find all the solutions of 􀝕 = 􀬿􀬶􀯫􀬾􀬹􀯬
􀬶􀯫􀬾􀯬 and write its implicit equation.
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Question 886643: The length of a rectangle is 4 feet less than twice the width of the rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 70 square feet. Find the width and the length of the rectangle.
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Question 886641: You can rent a car from company A for $32 a day plus $0.09 a mile. company B charges $2 a day plus $0.22 a mile. How many miles (to the nearest mile) can be driven per day if using Company B to yield the least rental charge?
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Question 886817: how many gallons of 50% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 70 gallons of 30% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 40% antifreeze? use the six-step method.

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Question 886943: How much of a 60% acid solution must be mixed with 50 gallons of a 24% acid solution to obtain a solution that is 50% acid?
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Question 886939: A pharmacist needs 100 milimeters of 50% alcohol solution. She has 30% alcohol solution and 80% alcohol solution available to mix. How many milimeters of each solution should be used?
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Question 887046: A solution is 10%dye. how much water is necessary to dilute 15 liters of it so that it shall be 5% dye?

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Question 887111: a chemist has 20% and 60% solutions of acid available. how many liters of each solution should be mixed to obtain 10 liters of a 30% acid solution
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Question 887337: 9 men use 45 tissue papers in 6 days. How long would 70 tissue paper last for 7 men?
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Question 887359: A pharmacist has two suppliers of vitamin supplements. The strong brand contains 25% vitamin B and 15% vitamin C. The healthy brand contains 15% vitamin B and 20% vitamin c. How many milligrams of each brand should the pharmacist use make a mixture that contains 117.5 mg of vitamin B and 120 mg of vitamin C?
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Question 887398: How many litres of acid wil make 1 kilogram
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Question 887696: A 60 pound mixture includes 9 pounds of pepper. How many pounds of pepper must be added to the make the ratio of pepper to mixture 1:2?
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Question 887912: How many pounds of bananas and how many pounds of mangos are in a 5-pound bag of mixed fruit, if bananas cost $3 per pound and mangos cost $5.50 per pound, and I paid $17.50 for the 5-pound bag?
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Question 887962: 22% x (T-6660) = 19% x T
Need a value for T
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Question 887987: If 14" is 60% how many inches is 49%?
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Question 888071: if I have a 48 oz bottle of juice and a 2 liter bottle of soda and mix them together, how many 6 oz servings will i have?

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Question 888095: A radiator can contain 6 gallons of liquid water and antifreeze. How many gallons of pure water would be needed to be mixed with 80% antifreeze to fill up the radiator with a 30% antifreeze solution?
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Question 888172: Nasir read 60 pages of a book on the first day. This was 20% more than the number of pages he read on the second day. Given that he read 1/6 of the book on the.second day, find the number of pages in the book he had read.
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Question 888221: How many liters of a 15% salt solution must be mixed with 5 liters of a 25% salt solution to give a 20% solution
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Question 888298: how much water should be added to 300 litres of a solution so that its concentration may change from 25% to 20%?
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Question 888298: how much water should be added to 300 litres of a solution so that its concentration may change from 25% to 20%?
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Question 888304: covert 675mm to centimeters
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Question 888379: if I have a container that holds 2 and 1/2 litres of water how many grams of sand I can put in this container?
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Question 888391: Jenny and her brother mixed together two types of soil to make 15 yd^3 of soil with a 34℅ silt content. They used 9 yd^3 of a soil with 24℅ silt content and 6 yd^3 of another type of soil. What was the silt content of the second type of soil?
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Question 888616: There are two types of coffee bean used to make a blend of coffee. If Bean A costs $0.80 per kilogram and Bean B should be used in 10 kg of the blend to make the overall cost of the blend Equal to $0.60 per kilogram?
Round to the one decimal place
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Question 888648: A chemist has two acid solutions in stock: one that is a 40% solution and the other a 60% solution. How much of each solution should be mixed to obtain 100ml of a 45% solution ?
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Question 888696: A store owner sells cashew nuts $5.00 a pound and peanuts $1.50 a pound the owner decides to mix tne nuts and sell the mixed nuts for $3.00 a pound.How much pounds of cashew should he mix with the peanuts so that the mixture will produce the same revenue as would selling the nuts separately.
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Question 888737: Copper, nickel, and zinc are melted down and mixed together. What must happen for them to form a compound?
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Question 888672: a merchant has coffee worth $20 a pound that she wishes to mix with 60 pounds of $90 a pound to get a mixture that can be sold for $60 a pound. How many pounds of the $20 coffee should be used?
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Question 888756: What quantity, x, of a 30% acid solution must be mixed with a 35% acid solution to produce 5000 mL of a 31.5% solution?
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Question 888786: x+y=2255
what is the value of x or y?

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Question 888760: decrease 153 g in the ratio 5:9
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Question 888782: Find the area of the triangle with vertices A(6,-7), B(11,-3) and
C(2,-2).
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Question 888778: how many oz of 5% solution do you add to 8oz of 10% solution to get 9 % solution
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Question 888910: a concentrated orange juice sold in the grocery ids labeled "95% juice how may ml of water is present in a 100 ml bottle?
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Question 888929: how many liters of a 40% acid solution must be added to 100 liters of a 25% solution to obtain a 30% solution?

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Question 889017: A silversmith needs 40 pounds of a 48% silver alloy to finish a collection of jewelry. How many pounds of 45% silver alloy should he melt with a 60% silver alloy to obtain the alloy he needs.
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Question 889029: X/15 = 9/36 what is x?
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Question 889060: How much water must I add to one cup of a 35% solution of H2O2 to generate a 2% solution of H2O2?
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Question 889101: Find the value of 10% of80kg

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Question 889108: If I get 600gm with 5 kg 400gm free so how much the percentage standing on it?
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