Alligation or Mixture problems
A shopkeeper has 100 kgs of tea. He sells a part of it at 20% profit and the rest at 5% loss. If his overall profit is 10%, find the quantity for each part.

30 kgs
25 kgs
20 kgs
40 kgs

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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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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?

120
180
160
110

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Alligation or Mixture problems
In a mixture of 45 liters, the ratio of milk and water is 4:1. How much water must be added to make the mixture ratio 3:2?

24lLitres
15 litres
1.5 litres
72 litres

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From a cask of wine containing 25 litres, 5 litres are withdrawn and the cask is refilled with water.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.

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

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Alligation or Mixture problems
A mixture contains spirit and water in the ratio of 3 : 2. If it contains 3 litres more spirit than water, the quantity of spirit in the mixture is

9 litres
12 litres
8 litres
10 litres

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