ALLIGATION OR MIXTURE PROBLEMS QUIZ

Two casks of 48 and 42 liters are filled with mixture of wine and water13 : 7 and 18 : 17. If the contents of the two casks be mixed and 20 liters of water added to the whole what will be the proportion of wine to water in the result?

13 : 12

21 : 31

31 : 21

12 : 13

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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

1.5 kg

None of these

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An alloy contains copper and tin in the ratio 3 : 2. If 250 gm of copper is added to this alloy then the copper in it becomes double the quantity of tin in it. What is the amount (in gm) of tin in the alloy?

250

750

1000

500

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In a mixture of 240 lt. water is 20% and rest is Milk. What quantity of mixture should be taken out and replaced with water so that water becomes 40%?

55 lit

50 lit

45 lit

60 lit

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The ratio of milk and water in 66 kg of adulterated milk is 5 : 1. Water is added to it to make the ratio 5 : 3. The quantity of water added is ?

24·750 kg

22 kg

16·500 kg

20 kg

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The milk and water in two vessels A and B are in the ratio 4:3 and 2:3 respectively. In what ratio the liquids in both the vessels be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel c consisting half milk and half water?

7:5

11:7

6:7

8:3

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In what ratio of water be mixed with milk to gain 16 2/ 3 % on selling the mixture at cost price?

2 : 3

1 : 6

6 : 1

4 : 3

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From a cask of wine, containing 64 liters, 8 liters are drawn out and the cask is filled up with water. If the same process is repeated a second, then a third time, what will be the number of liters of wine left in the cask?

42 1 kg 8

48 7 kg 8

42 7 kg 8

42 3 kg 8

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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?

55

70

220

110

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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?

9 litres

15 litres

6 litres

12 litres

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