Alligation or Mixture problems
A man has whisky worth Rs. 22 a liter and another lot worth Rs. 18 a liter. Equal quantities of these are mixed with water to obtain a mixture of 50 liters worth Rs. 16 a liter. Find how much water the mixture contains?

5 litre
10 litre
15 litre
20 litre

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Alligation or Mixture problems
A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 25% water and the rest milk. The second contains 50% water. How much milk should he mix from each of the containers so as to get 12 litres of milk such that the ratio of water to milk is 3 : 5?

7 litres, 5 litres
5 litres, 7 litres
4 litres, 8 litres
6 litres, 6 litres

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Alligation or Mixture problems
A jar was full with honey. A person used to draw out 20% of the honey from the jar and replaced it with sugar solution. He has repeated the same process 4 times and thus there was only 512 gm of honey left in the jar, the rest part of the jar was filled with the sugar solution. The initial amount of honey in the jar was filled with the sugar solution. The initial amount of honey in the jar was:

1.5 kg
1 kg
1.25 kg
None of these

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Alligation or Mixture problems
How many liters of oil at Rs.40 per liter should be mixed with 240 liters of a second variety of oil at Rs.60 per liter so as to get a maximum whose cost is Rs.52 per liter?

110
180
120
160

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Alligation or Mixture problems
Milk and water are mixed in a vessel A as 4:1 and in vessel B as 3:2. For vessel C, if one takes equal quantities from A and B, find the ratio of milk to water in C.

7:3
3:7
1:9
9:1

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