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
Fresh fruit contains 72 % water and dry fruits contains 20 % water. How much dry fruit from 100 kg of fresh fruit can be obtained?

30 kg
33 kg
35 kg
32 kg

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Alligation or Mixture problems
A milkman claims to sell milk at its cost price, still, he is making a profit of 30% since he has mixed some amount of water in the milk. What is the % of milk in the mixture?

86.42%
76.92%
71.02%
63.22%

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Alligation or Mixture problems
A tin a mixture of two liquids A and B in the proportion 4 : 1. If 45 litres of the mixture is replaced by 45 litres of liquid B, then the ratio of the two liquids becomes 2 : 5. How much of the liquid B was there in the tin? What quantity does the tin hold?

58 l
62 l
65 l
50 l

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