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Question 889121: how much water do I add to 1 cup of 35% h2o2 to get a 2% h2o2 solution?
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Question 889272: In order to make lemonade taste irresistible you will make 10-cup batches that consist of 50% water 25% lemonade mix 10% lemon juice and 15% sugar. Solve the problem, what ingredients did youhave leftover and how much of each one?do you feel like your plan waa effectively in maximixzing your ingredients? Reflect on your process and discuss a different way you could have approached this problems
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Question 889342: i need help

it says use 5 ml for 4 gallons of water how many mls would i need
its a 150g tank
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Question 889395: Mike and Dan bought a foot long sub sandwich and decided that it would be fair for Dan to have a third more of the sandwich than Mike. Ho�
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Question 889436: Geeta typed 150words in 2 min. How many words will she type in one hour
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Question 889448: A chemist has one solution of acid and water that is 75% acid and another solution that is 15% acid. How many gallons of 75 % are needed to make 85 gallons of a 45% acid solution?
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Question 889549: to
15 liters of milk containing 20% water, 5 liters of pure milk is added. What is the percentage of water in the resultant mixture?
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Question 889503: a 50-milliliter salt solution contain 4 milliliters of salt. How many milliliters of salt will a 75-milliliter solution of the same strength contain?
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Question 890083: A chef is using a mixture of two brands of Italian dressing. The first brand contains 10% vinegar, and the second brand contains 15% vinegar. The chef wants to make 230 milliliters of a dressing that is 14% vinegar. How much of each brand should she use?
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Question 890092: Alcohol Mixture. How may gallons of pure alcohol should be mixed with 20 gal of a 15% alcohol solution to obtain a mixture that is 25% alcohol?
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Question 890133: 2L of a party punch that contains 35% fruit juice is mixed with 3L of another punch. The resulting fruit punch is 20% fruit juice. Find the percent concentration of fruit juice contain in the 3L punch that was added.
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Question 890144: 60 kg of an alloy of zinc and aluminium contains 80% of zinc. How much zinc must be melted into it to make the alloy contains 85% of zinc?
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Question 890327: Determine how many liters of a 10 percent acid solution and 25 percent acid solution should be mixed to obtain 8 liters of 20 percent acid solution?

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Question 890349: how many ml of 20% acid solution should be added to pure acid to obtain 40 ml of 45% acid solution?

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Question 890418: A certain brand of juice is 28 ounces for $4.20. How much would 62 ounces cost at this rate?
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Question 890554: old family recipe makes 12 servings contains 2/3 cups of flour. if you have to make 27 servings how many cups of flour will you need.
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Question 890564: how much water must be added to 2L of a 20% bleach 80 water mixure to yield a 10% bleach 90% water mixture?
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Question 890508: A boat on a river travels downstream (with the current) between two points 20 miles apart, in one hour. The return trip (against the current) takes 2& 1/2 hours. What is the boat's speed, and what is the speed of the current?
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Question 890580: Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic elements. The ratios of the components of the two basic elements in the two alloys are 5:3 and 1:2 respectively. A new alloy X is formed by mixing the two alloys A and B in the ratio 4:3.What is the ratio of the compositions of the two basic elements in alloy X.
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Question 890648: a lab tech has 540ml of a solution of alcohol and water. 8% is alcohol. How
many ML are alcohol ? water?
what steps do I take to solve this?
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Question 890504: How much of each of a 20% alcohol solution and a 45% alcohol solution must be mixed together to get 30 liters of a 40% alcohol solution?
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Question 890706: I have 4 litres of 50% alcohol how much water do I add to dilute to 43% alcohol ?

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Question 890769: Cara has 2 bottles of juice each hold 2l, she also has 4 cups of juice each hold 250ml of juice. Cara wants to pour the juice into glasses that can each hold 200ml . How many glasses will she need?
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Question 890776: please help.
How many liters of water must be added to 10 liters of 30% alcohol in order to produce 50 liters of 10% alcohol?
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Question 890772: a coffee retailer has two grades of decaffeinated coffee beans, one wholesales at $4.00 a pound and the other for 6.50 a pound. she wishes to blend the beans to form a 150 pound mixture that sells wholesale for 4.75 a pound. how many pounds of each grade of bean should she use in the mixture?
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Question 890864: A grocer wants to mix two kinds of nuts. One sells for $1.10 per pound and the other sells for $2.80 per pound. He wants to mix 27 pounds and sell it for $2.20 per pound. How many pounds of each type of nut should he use?
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Question 890768: Cara has 2 bottles of juice each hold 2l.she also has 4 cups of juice each hold 250ml of juice. How much juice does cara have?
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Question 889420: how to prepare 20% of iodine solution.

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Question 891101: the frequency of vibration (f) in an open pipe organ varies inversely as the length (L) of the pipe. If the air in a pipe 2m long vibrates 60 times per minute, find the frequency in a pipe that is 1.5m long

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Question 891225: how many liters of a 70% acid solution must be mixed with a 30% acid solution to get 400 liters of a 60% acid solution?
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Question 891347: If six cans of beans cost $1.50, what is the price of eight cans of beans?

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Question 891327: I have 10 liters of a 40% water and 60% ethanol mixture. How much of an unlimited supply of 90% water and 10% ethanol mixture should i add to this mixture in order to dilute it to a concentration of 25% ethanol?
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Question 891374: A flask contains 40 ounces of 20% acid solution. If 10 ounces of pure acid are added to the flask, what percent of the new mixture is acid?
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Question 891382: How many liters of a 15% sugar solution must be mixed with 5 liters of a 45% sugar solution to give a 20% solution?
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Question 891425: is their any problem by combing gold and rold gold
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Question 891498: One thousand liters of a solution was avaliable, but the solution was 60% alcohol. A solution of 45% alcohol is needed. How many liters of alcohol have to be extracted so that the solution is 45% alcohol?
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Question 891539: In 700 c.c of a mixture of three liquids volume of 1st and 2nd are in a ratio 2:3 and the volumes of 2nd and 3rd are in a ratio 4:5. How much of 1st and 3rd be mixed with the mixture so as to reach the ratio to 5:6:10.

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Question 891711: A mother is 21 years older than her son. 6 years
from now exactly, the mother will be exactly 5 times
as old as the child. Where's the child's dad?
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Question 891719: a pharmacist mixed some 10% saline solution with some 15% saline solution to obtain 100 mL of a 12% saline solution. How much of the 10% saline solution did the pharmacist use in the mixture?
A. 60mL
B.45mL
C. 40mL
D. 25mL
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Question 891846: A chemist has three solutions containing a given acid. First solution contains 10% of the acid solution; second solution has 30%, and the third one has 50%. He/she desires to use the three solutions to obtain a mixture of 50 L containing 32% of acid by using twice the 50% solution than 30% solution. How many liters from each solution are to be used?
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Question 891540: The Royal Fruit Company produces two types of fruit drinks. The first type is pure fruit juice, and the second type is pure fruit juice. The company is attempting to produce a fruit drink that contains pure fruit juice. How many pints of each of the two existing types of drink must be used to make pints of a mixture that is pure fruit juice?
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Question 891881: Jenna needs 100 liters if a 15% alcohol solution. If she has a 12% alcohol solution and a 20% alcohol solution available, how many of each should sheix to get the desired solution?
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