Alligation or Mixture problems
A petrol pump owner mixed leaded and unleaded petrol in such a way that the mixture contains 10 % unleaded petrol. What quantity of leaded petrol should be added to 1 liter mixtures, so that the percentage of unleaded petrol becomes 5 %?

1800 ml
1000 ml
900 ml
1900 ml

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Alligation or Mixture problems
A mixture of 70 litres of Fruit Juice and water contains 10% water. How many litres of water should be added to the mixture so that the mixture contains 12.5% water?

4 lit
2 lit
1 lit
3 lit

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Alligation or Mixture problems
From a cask of wine containing 25 litres, 5 litres are withdrawn and the cask is refilled with water. The process is repeated a second and then a third time. Find the quantity of wine left in the cask and also the ratio of wine to water in the resulting mixture.

64 : 61
61 : 64
16 : 46
46 : 16

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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
120 litres
100 litres
75 litres

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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
65 liters
91 liters
None of these

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