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Vessels A and B contain 60 litres of alcohol and 60 litres of water, respectively. A certain volume is taken out from A and poured into B. After stirring, the same volume is taken out from B and poured into A. If the resultant ratio of alcohol and water in A is 15 : 4, then the volume, in litres, initially taken out from A is

A mixture of coffee and cocoa, 16% of which is coffee, costs Rs 240 per kg. Another mixture of coffee and cocoa, of which 36% is coffee, costs Rs 320 per kg. If a new mixture of coffee and cocoa costs Rs 376 per kg, then the quantity, in kg, of coffee in 10 kg of this new mixture is

A container holds 200 litres of a solution of acid and water, having 30% acid by volume. Atul replaces 20% of this solution with water, then replaces 10% of the resulting solution with acid, and finally replaces 15% of the solution thus obtained, with water. The percentage of acid by volume in the final solution obtained after these three replacements, is nearest to

A certain amount of water was poured into a 300 litre container and the remaining portion of the container was filled with milk. Then an amount of this solution was taken out from the container which was twice the volume of water that was earlier poured into it, and water was poured to refill the container again. If the resulting solution contains 72% milk, then the amount of water, in litres, that was initially poured into the container was

A vessel contained a certain amount of a solution of acid and water. When 2 litres of water was added to it, the new solution had 50% acid concentration. When 15 litres of acid was further added to this new solution, the final solution had 80% acid concentration. The ratio of water and acid in the original solution was

A glass is filled with milk. Two-thirds of its content is poured out and replaced with water. If this process of pouring out two-thirds the content and replacing with water is repeated three more times, then the final ratio of milk to water in the glass, is

Anil mixes cocoa with sugar in the ratio $3: 2$ to prepare mixture $A$, and coffee with sugar in the ratio $7: 3$ to prepare mixture $B$. He combines mixtures $A$ and $B$ in the ratio $2: 3$ to make a new mixture $C$. If he mixes $C$ with an equal amount of milk to make a drink, then the percentage of sugar in this drink will be

A container has $40$ liters of milk. Then, $4$ liters are removed from the container and replaced with $4$ liters of water. This process of replacing $4$ liters of the liquid in the container with an equal volume of water is continued repeatedly. The smallest number of times of doing this process, after which the volume of milk in the container becomes less than that of water, is

A mixture P is formed by removing a certain amount of coffee from a coffee jar and replacing the same amount with cocoa powder. The same amount is again removed from mixture $P$ and replaced with same amount of cocoa powder to form a new mixture $Q$. If the ratio of coffee and cocoa in the mixture $Q$ is $16: 9$, then the ratio of cocoa in mixture $P$ to that in mixture $Q$ is

A glass contains $500 \mathrm{cc}$ of milk and a cup contains $500 \mathrm{cc}$ of water. From the glass, $150 \mathrm{cc}$ of milk is transferred to the cup and mixed thoroughly. Next, $150 \mathrm{cc}$ of this mixture is transferred from the cup to the glass. Now, the amount of water in the glass and the amount of milk in the cup are in the ratio

There are two containers of the same volume, first container half-filled with sugar syrup and the second container half-filled with milk. Half the content of the first container is transferred to the second container, and then the half of this mixture is transferred back to the first container. Next, half the content of the first container is transferred back to the second container. Then the ratio of sugar syrup and milk in the second container is

A mixture contains lemon juice and sugar syrup in equal proportion. If a new mixture is created by adding this mixture and sugar syrup in the ratio $1: 3$, then the ratio of lemon juice and sugar syrup in the new mixture is

If a certain weight of an alloy of silver and copper is mixed with $3$ kg of pure silver, the resulting alloy will have $90\%$ silver by weight. If the same weight of the initial alloy is mixed with $2$ kg of another alloy which has $90\%$ silver by weight, the resulting alloy will have $84\%$ silver by weight. Then, the weight of the initial alloy, in kg, is

A person buys tea of three different qualities at Rs. $800$, Rs. $500$, and Rs. $300$ per kg, respectively, and the amounts bought are in the proportion $2: 3: 5$. She mixes all the tea and sells one-sixth of the mixture at Rs. $700$ per kg. The price, in INR per kg, at which she should sell the remaining tea, to make an overall profit of $50\%$, is

From a container filled with milk, $9$ litres of milk are drawn and replaced with water. Next, from the same container, $9$ litres are drawn and again replaced with water. If the volumes of milk and water in the container are now in the ratio of $16: 9$, then the capacity of the container, in litres, is

The strength of an indigo solution in percentage is equal to the amount of indigo in grams per $100 \mathrm{cc}$ of water. Two $800 \mathrm{cc}$ bottles are filled with indigo solutions of strengths $33 \%$ and $17 \%$, respectively. A part of the solution from the first bottle is thrown away and replaced by an equal volume of the solution from the second bottle. If the strength of the indigo solution in the first bottle has now changed to $21 \%$ then the volume, in cc, of the solution left in the second bottle is

Two alcohol solutions, $A$ and $B$, are mixed in the proportion $1:3$ by volume. The volume of the mixture is then doubled by adding solution $A$ such that the resulting mixture has $72 \%$ alcohol. If solution $A$ has $60 \%$ alcohol, then the percentage of alcohol in solution $B$ is

A solution, of volume $40$ litres, has dye and water in the proportion $2: 3$. Water is added to the solution to change this proportion to $2: 5$. If one-fourths of this diluted solution is taken out, how many litres of dye must be added to the remaining solution to bring the proportion back to $2: 3$?

The strength of a salt solution is $\mathrm{p} \%$ if $100 \mathrm{ml}$ of the solution contains $p$ grams of salt. Each of three vessels $\mathrm{A}, \mathrm{B}, \mathrm{C}$ contains $500 \mathrm{ml}$ of salt solution of strengths $10 \%, 22 \%$, and $32 \%$, respectively. Now, $100 \mathrm{ml}$ of the solution in vessel A is transferred to vessel B. Then, $100 \mathrm{ml}$ of the solution in vessel $B$ is transferred to vessel $C$. Finally, $100 \mathrm{ml}$ of the solution in vessel $C$ is transferred to vessel $A$. The strength, in percentage, of the resulting solution in vessel $A$ is

A chemist mixes two liquids $1$ and $2$. One litre of liquid $1$ weighs $1 \mathrm{~kg}$ and one litre of liquid $2$ weighs $800 \mathrm{gm}$. If half litre of the mixture weighs $480 \mathrm{gm}$, then the percentage of liquid $1$ in the mixture, in terms of volume, is

There are two drums, each containing a mixture of paints $A$ and $B$ . In drum $1, \mathrm{~A}$ and B are in the ratio $18: 7$. The mixtures from drums $1$ and $2$ are mixed in the ratio $3: 4$ and in this final mixture, $A$ and $B$ are in the ratio $13: 7$. In drum $2$, then $A$ and $B$ were in the ratio

The strength of a salt solution is $p\%$ if $100 \mathrm{ml}$ of the solution contains p grams of salt. If three salt solutions $A, B, C$ are mixed in the proportion $1: 2: 3$, then the resulting solution has strength $20 \%$. If instead the proportion is $3: 2: 1$, then the resulting solution has strength $30 \%$. A fourth solution, $D$, is produced by mixing $B$ and $C$ in the ratio $2: 7$. The ratio of the strength of $D$ to that of $A$ is

A $20 \%$ ethanol solution is mixed with another ethanol solution, say, $S$ of unknown concentration in the proportion $1:3$ by volume. This mixture is then mixed with an equal volume of $20 \%$ ethanol solution. If the resultant mixture is a $31.25 \%$ ethanol solution, then the unknown concentration of $S$ is

A jar contains a mixture of $175 \mathrm{ml}$ water and $700 \mathrm{ml}$ alcohol. Gopal takes out $10 \%$ of the mixture and substitutes it by water of the same amount. The process is repeated once again. The percentage of water in the mixture is now

A trader sells $10$ litres of a mixture of paints $A$ and $B$, where the amount of $B$ in the mixture does not exceed that of $A$. The cost of paint A per litre is Rs. $8$ more than that of paint B. If the trader sells the entire mixture for Rs. $264$ and makes a profit of $10 \%$, then the highest possible cost of paint B, in Rs. per litre, is

Bottle $1$ contains a mixture of milk and water in $7: 2$ ratio and Bottle $2$ contains a mixture of milk and water in $9: 4$ ratio. In what ratio of volumes should the liquids in Bottle $1$ and Bottle $2$ be combined to obtain a mixture of milk and water in $3: 1$ ratio?

Consider three mixtures - the first having water and liquid A in the ratio $1: 2$, the second having water and liquid B in the ratio $1: 3$, and the third having water and liquid $C$ in the ratio $1: 4$. These three mixtures of $A, B,$ and $C$, respectively, are further mixed in the proportion $4:3:2$. Then the resulting mixture has