Alligation or Mixture problems
A shopkeeper has 50 kgs of rice. He sells a part of it at 20% profit and the rest at 40% profit. If he gains 25% on the whole, find the quantity of each part.

21.5 kgs and 23.5 kgs
12.5 kgs and 37.5 kgs
37.5 kgs and 12.5 kgs
23.5 kgs and 21.5 kgs

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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%
6¼%
25%
4%

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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:

100 litres
75 litres
120 litres
150 litres

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