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Question 352517: Please help me to solve this question: Manning the gardener has 26 lb of a mixture of fertilizer and weed killer.If 1 lb of the mixture is replaced by weed killer the result is a mixture that is 5 percent weed killer.What percent of the original mixture was weed killer?
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