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:

120 litres
100 litres
150 litres
75 litres

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Alligation or Mixture problems
How many kilogram of sugar costing Rs. 9 per kg must be mixed with 27 kg of sugar costing Rs. 7 per kg so that there may be a gain of 10% by selling the mixture at Rs. 9.24 per kg?

54 kg
36 kg
63 kg
42 kg

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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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Alligation or Mixture problems
In what ratio must water be mixed with milk to gain 16⅔% on selling the mixture at cost price?

1 : 6
2 : 3
6 : 1
4 : 3

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Alligation or Mixture problems
Kantilal mixes 80 kg of sugar worth of Rs. 6·75 per kg with 120 kg worth of Rs. 8 per kg. At what rate shall he sell the mixture to gain 20 %?

Rs. 7·50
Rs. 8·20
Rs. 8·85
Rs. 9

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Alligation or Mixture problems
8 litres are drawn from a cask full of wine and is then filled with water. This operation is performed three more times. The ratio of the quantity of wine now left in cask to that of water is 16 : 65. How much wine did the cask hold originally?

24 litres
18 litres
32 litres
42 litres

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