Alligation or Mixture problems
A dishonest milkman professes to sell his milk at cost price but he mixes it with water and thereby gains 25%. The percentage of water in the mixture is:

20%
4%
25%
6¼%

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Alligation or Mixture problems
The ratio of petrol and kerosene in the container is 3:2 when 10 liters of the mixture is taken out and is replaced by the kerosene, the ratio become 2:3. Then total quantity of the mixture in the container is:

25
cannot be determined
45
30

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Alligation or Mixture problems
Kantilal mixes 80 kg of sugar worth of Rs. 6·75 per kg with 120 kg worth of Rs. 8 per kg. At what rate shall he sell the mixture to gain 20 %?

Rs. 7·50
Rs. 8·85
Rs. 9
Rs. 8·20

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Alligation or Mixture problems
Jar A has 36 litres of mixture of milk and water in the respective ratio of 5 : 4. Jar B which had 20 litres of mixture of milk and water, was emptied into jar A, and as a result in jar A, the respective ratio of milk and water becomes 5: 3. What was the quantity of water in jar B?

2 lit
8 lit
3 lit
5 lit

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Alligation or Mixture problems
In a mixture of milk and water, there is only 26% water. After replacing the mixture with 7 liters of pure milk , the percentage of milk in the mixture become 76%. The quantity of mixture is:

38 liters
91 liters
None of these
65 liters

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Alligation or Mixture problems
From a container of wine, a thief has stolen 15 litres of wine and replaced it with same quantity of water. He again repeated the same process. Thus, in three attempts the ratio of wine and water became 343 : 169. The initial amount of wine in the container was:

150 litres
100 litres
120 litres
75 litres

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