Mixtures and solutions - practice problems - page 3 of 14
Number of problems found: 266
- Dairy 2
The dairy meal is made up of a mixture of wheat bran and cotton. 40 kg of wheat bran cost sh.1250, and 50 kg of cotton cost sh.3250. 50 kg of a dairy meal is a mixture of 48 kg of wheat bran and 2 kg of cotton. Calculate the cost of a 1 kg dairy meal.
- Kilograms - drying
Fresh herbs contain 90% water, dried 10% water. How many kilograms of herbs can we dry from 15 kg of fresh ones?
- Femma
Emma mixes 1 7/8 cup of water with 2/3 cup of orange juice as a part of a recipe. How many cups is her mixture?
- Rocks 2
A garden center has one type of rock that sells for $6.50 per cubic yard and another type of rock that sells for $12.80 per cubic yard. They want to make 25.2 cubic yards of a mixture of rock that sells for $12.40/cubic yard. How much of each rock will th
- A coffee
A coffee shop owner blends a gourmet brand of coffee with a cheaper brand. Gourmet coffee usually sells for R420,00 per kilogram, while the cheaper brand sells for R180,00 per kilogram. How much of each type should be mixed to have 30 kilograms of coffee
- Coffee 6
Coffee worth $1.05 per pound is mixed with coffee worth 85 cents per pound to obtain 20 pounds of a mixture worth 90 cents per pound. How many pounds of each type is used?
- Kilograms 71754
In the fruit warehouse, they have white grapes for CZK 70 per kilogram and blue grapes for CZK 90 per kilogram. For the retail chain, 600 kg of a mixture of both types must be prepared so that one kilogram of the mixture costs CZK 85. How many kilograms o
- Two alloys
Two alloys, Y and Z, are each made up of zinc, tin, and copper. In alloy Y, the ratio of zinc to tin is 2:5, and the ratio of copper to tin is 4:3. Find the ratio of copper:zinc:tin in alloy Y.
- Fertilizer mixture
A fruit company uses two types of fertilizers in an orange grove, brand A and brand B. each bag of brand A contains 8 pounds of nitrogen and 4 pounds of phosphoric acid. Each bag of brand B contains 7 pounds of nitrogen and 6 pounds of phosphoric acid. Th
- Saving at market shop
Mr. Akpalu went to a market to purchase 3 kg of sugar, 10 kg of wheat, and 1 kg of salt. In a shop near his residence, these commodities are priced at € 20, €10, and € 6 per kg, whereas in the local market, they are priced at € 15, 8, and € 6 per kg, resp
- 3 identical tributaries
The pool would fill with three identical tributaries in 52 hours. After 20 hours, two more inlets were added. How many hours did the pool fill up?
- Solutions 70424
To what extent do we need to mix 82% and 54% solutions to get a 76% solution?
- Collection 70394
We mixed two types of candies into the collection. The first species is for 36 CZK per 1 kg, and the second species is for 54 CZK per 1 kg. What was the price of one kg of a mixture?
- Fertilizer 68694
0.6 l of fertilizer goes to 40 l of water. How much fertilizer should be put in per 10 liters of water?
- Alloy Cu+Pb
An alloy of copper and lead is a mixture of these metals in a ratio of 5:2 (respectively). Calculate in kg how much a piece of this alloy weighs if it contains just 150 kg less lead than copper.
- Cashews + beetroots
The lady sells nuts. It has two mixtures of nuts (cashews/beetroots) in a ratio of 2:1 and 1:3 (cashews and peanuts). Determine the ratio to mix both mixtures so that the ratio of cashews/beetroot in the resulting mixture is 1:2. (Please provide a certifi
- Containing 64604
The metal casting consisted of copper and zinc. If we remelted it with 3 kg of pure copper, we would get an alloy containing 80% copper. Instead, we remelted the casting with 3 kilograms of pure zinc, so the resulting alloy contained only 50% copper. Dete
- Opened 64544
We can fill the pool with two inflow pipes. The first pipe fill in 24 hours and the second in 16 hours. How long did the pool fill if the first tube was open for the first 4 hours and then we opened both inlets?
- A beauty
A beauty supply company has 53 liters of 5% hydrogen peroxide solution on hand and a nearly limitless amount of a solution containing 35% hydrogen peroxide. How many liters of the 35% hydrogen peroxide solution should the company add to the 5% hydrogen pe
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