Mixtures and Alligation

1. Two cylinders A and B contain ethanol and water in the ratio 5 : 2 and 7 : 6respectively. Find the ratio in which these mixtures be mixed to obtain a new mixture invessel C containing ethanol and water in the ratio 8 : 5 ?A. 3: 4 B. 4 : 3 C. 9 : 7 D. 7 : 9

A mixture of 25 lit contains milk and water in the ratio 3.2x lit of water is added in mixture to make the ratio of milk and water as 1:1. After that 'y' lit of milk is added to make the proportion of milk and water same as in initial condition. Find y is what percent more than 'X' ?

Two mixtures A and B of concentration 4:5 and 5:7 of milk to water poured into a vessel in the ratio 3:4. If milk in final mixture is 72 L then find quantity of water in final mixture

Ration of milk is to water in certain solution of 75 litres is 2 :1 . How much water is to be mixed in solution so that ratio becomes 1 : 2:

A milkman mixed 30 litres of water in 150 liter of milk and sold 30 liter of mixture, after that he mixed milk and water in the ratio 5:6 so quantity. Of milk becomes 150 litre. Then find how much amount water mixed by milkman after sold 30 liter of mixture?

Two gallons of a mixture of water and sprit, water contain 15% of mixture. They are added to 3 gallons of another mixture of water and sprit, in which water contain 8% of mixture and half of a gallon water when added to the whole mixture find the water percentage in resulting mixture?

There are two types of Drinks A and B. Drink A contains 40% alcohol and Drink B contains 25% of alcohol. Both brands are to be mixed. If the combined mixture is to be 30% of alcohol, then find what percentage of Drink A in the final mixture?

A thief has stolen 16L of beer from a container and replaced with the same quantity of water. He again repeated this process 2 times more. Thus, the ratio of the beer to the total quantity in the container becomes 125:216. Find the initial quantity of beer in the container?

A container that contains a mixture of milk and water in a ratio of 7 : 4. 11 litres of mixture is taken out from the container and 4 litres of pure milk is added to the mixture. Then the new ratio becomes 2:1. Find out the initial quantity of mixture in the container?

Vessels A and B contain mixtures of alcohol and water in the ratios 5 : 3 and 1 : 3 respectively . In what ratio should quantities of mixture be taken from A and B to form a new mixture in which alcohol to water is in the ratio 11 : 21?

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

How much quantity of water should be mixed with 10 l of milk costing Rs 50 per litre so that the resultant mixture is to be sold at Rs 44 per kg?

A special mixture contains A, B and C in the ratio of 2:3:5. If a bag of the mixture contains 3 pounds of A, how much C does it contain ?