ALLIGATION OR MIXTURE PROBLEMS QUIZ

A jar was full with honey. A person used to draw out 20% of the honey from the jar and replaced it with sugar solution. He has repeated the same process 4 times and thus there was only 512 gm of honey left in the jar, the rest part of the jar was filled with the sugar solution. The initial amount of honey in the jar was:

1 kg

1.25 kg

None of these

1.5 kg

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Two solution of 90% and 97% purity and mixed resulting in 21 liters of mixture of 94% purity. How much is the quantity of the first solution in the resulting mixture?

6 litres

9 litres

15 litres

12 litres

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If a dairy mixes cow's milk which contains 10% fat with buffalo's milk which contains 20% fat, then the resulting mixture has fat (120/7)% of fat. What ratio was the cow's milk mixed with buffalo's milk?

2 : 5

2 : 3

2 : 1

1 : 5

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In what ratio must a grocer mix two varieties of tea worth Rs. 60 a kg and Rs. 65 a kg so that by selling the mixture at Rs. 68.20 a kg he may gain 10%?

3 : 2

4 : 5

3 : 4

3 : 5

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A man buys milk at Rs. 5 a litre and mixes it with water. By selling the mixture at Rs. 4 a litre he gains 121/2 % on his outlay. How much water did each litre of the mixture contain?

32 litre 45

13 litre 45

None of these

32 litre 13

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A mixture is composed of 11 parts of pure milk and 2 parts of water. If 35 litres of water were added to the mixture then the new mixture will contain twice as much pure milk as water, then how many litres of pure milk does the original mixture contain?

220

55

70

110

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A grocer buys two kind of rice at Rs. 1·80 and Rs. 1·20 per kg respectively. In what proportion should these be mixed, so that by selling the mixture at Rs. 1·75 per kg, 25 % may be gained?

1 : 2

2 : 1

3 : 2

3 : 4

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In a pot, there is a mixture of milk and water in the ratio 4 : 5. If it is filled with an additional 8 litres of milk, the pot would be full and ratio of milk and water would become 6 : 5. Find the capacity of the pot?

11 lit

22 lit

44 lit

33 lit

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Shiva purchased 280 kg of Rice at the rate of 15.60/kg and mixed it with 120 kg of rice purchased at the rate of 14.40/kg. He wants to earn a profit of Rs. 10.45 per kg by selling it. What should be the selling price of the mix per kg?

Rs. 26.94

Rs. 27.54

Rs. 25.69

Rs. 22.18

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An alloy is made by mixing metal A costing Rs 2000/kg and metal B costing Rs 400/kg in the ratio A:B = 3:1. What is the cost (in Rs) of 8 kilograms of this alloy?

12800

9800

6400

1600

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