ALLIGATIONS & MIXTURES

1. How many litres of a 90% of concentrated acid needs to be mixed

with a 75% solution of concentrated acid to get a 30 litre solution
of 78% concentrated acid?....6
2. Average marks of a,b,c is 48. When d joins average becomes 47. E
has 3 more marks than d. Average marks of b,c,d,e is 48. What is
the marks of a?.....43
3. On a certain assembly line, the rejection rate for Hyundai i10s
production was 4 percent, for Hyundai i20s production 8 percent
and for the 2 cars combined 7 percent. What was the ratio of
Hyundais i10 production?.....3/1
4. For a car there are 5 tyres including one spare tyre(4+1). All tyres
are equally used. If the total distance travelled by the car is
40000km then what is the average distance travelled by each
tyre?......32000
5. Two alloys A and B are composed of two basic elements. The
ratios of the compositions of the two basic elements in the two
alloys are 5:3 and 1:2, respectively. A new alloy X is formed by
mixing the two alloys A and B in the ratio 4:3.What is the ratio of
the composition of the two basic elements in alloy X?......1/1
6. In a barrel 729ml of oil. N amount of oil is replaced by water. If
the process continues for the 6times and find the amount of oil will
be?
7. A mixture of a certain quantity of milk with 16 litres of water is
worth 90p per litre. if pure milk be worth Rs.1.08 per litre, how
much milk is there in the mixture?........80
8. A solution of 25 litres contain 20% sugar, if 10 litres of the
solution is evaporated, find the percentage of sugar in the final
solution?....33.33%
9. A milk man mixed 1 : 4 solution of milk and water with another 1 :
2 solution of milk and water in the volume of ratio 3 : 2. If the
profit earned by selling the first solution was 20% and the mixture
was sold at the same price, what is the profit or
loss percentage? You have to assume that water comes free of
cost……..5.25% loss
10. Mixture of milk and water has been kept in two separate
containers. ratio of milk to water in one of the containers is 5:1 and
that in the other container is 7:2. in what ratio the mixtures of these
two containers should be added together so that the quantity of the
milk in the new mixture may become 80%..........2/3

11. The cost of Type 1 rice is Rs. 15 per kg and Type 2 rice is
Rs.20 per kg. If both Type 1 and Type 2 are mixed in the ratio of
2 : 3, then the price per kg of the mixed variety of rice is……18
12. From a container, 6 liters milk was drawn out and was
replaced by water. Again 6 liters of mixture was drawn out and was
replaced by the water. Thus the quantity of milk and water in the
container after these two operations is 9:16. The quantity of
mixture is:……..15
13. The diluted wine contains only 8 liters of wine and the rest is
water. A new mixture whose concentration is 30%, is to be formed
by replacing wine. How many liters of mixture shall be replaced
with pure wine if there was initially 32 liters of water in the
mixture ? ……5
14. A container contains 40 litres of milk.From this container 4
litres of milk was taken out and replaced by water. This process
was repeated further two times. How much milk is now contained
by the container………29.16
15. Find the ratio in which rice at Rs. 7.20 a kg be mixed with
rice at Rs. 5.70 a kg to produce a mixture worth Rs. 6.30 a
kg………2 3
16. In the 75 litres of mixture of milk and water, the ratio of milk
and water is 4:1. The quantity of water required to make the ratio
of milk and water 3:1……5
17. A milk man sells the milk at the cost price but he mixes the
water in it and thus he gains 9.09%. The quantity of water in the
mixture of 1 liter is :………83.33
18. A man travelled a distance of 80 km in 7 hours partly on foot
at the rate of 8 km per hour and partly on bicycle at 16 km /hr. Find
the distance travelled on foot ?........32
19. The average weight of boys in a class is 30 kg and the
average weight of girls in the same class is 20kg. If the average
weight of the whole class is 23.25 kg, what could be the possible
strength of boys and girls respectively in the same class?......13
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20. 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:
…..91
21. Tea worth of Rs. 135/kg & Rs. 126/kg are mixed with a third
variety in the ratio 1: 1 : 2. If the mixture is worth Rs. 153 per kg,
the price of the third variety per kg will be____?175.5
22. 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 the water is 16 :
65. How much wine the cask hold originally?......24

23. A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in the ratio

7 : 5. When 9 litres of mixture are drawn off and the can is filled
with B, the ratio of A and B becomes 7 : 9. How many litres of
liquid A was contained by the can initially?.....21
24. A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar part of which he sells at 8%
profit and the rest at 18% profit. He gains 14% on the whole. The
Quantity sold at 18% profit is…..21
25. A vessel is filled with liquid, 3 parts of which are water and 5
parts of syrup. How much of the mixture must be drawn off and
replaced with water so that the mixture may be half water and half
syrup?........1-5
26. A mixture of 150 liters of wine and water contains 20%
water. How much more water should be added so that water
becomes 25% of the new…….10
27. The ratio of expenditure and savings is 3 : 2 . If the income
increases by 15% and the savings increases by 6% , then by how
much percent should his expenditure increases?.....21

28. In what proportion water must be added to spirit to gain 20%

by selling it at the cost price ? 1-5
29. The ratio of petrol and kerosene in the container is 3:2 when
10 liters of the mixture is taken out and is replaced by the
kerosene, the ratio become 2:3. Then total quantity of the mixture
in the container is: ……..30
30. How many kilograms 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 ?.....63
31. A beaker contains 180 litres of alcohol. On day 1, 60 litres of
alcohol is replaced with water. On 2nd and 3rd days 60 litres of the
mixture in the beaker is replaced with water. What will be the
quantity of alcohol in the beaker after 3rd day?.......53.33
32. 1/7 th of the tank contains fuel. If 22 litres of fuel is poured
into the tank the indicator rests at 1/5th mark. What is the quantity
of the tank?........385
33. Three containers A, B and C are having mixtures of milk and
water in the ratio of 1:5, 3:5, 5:7 respectively. If the capacities of
the containers are in the ratio 5:4:5, find the ratio of milk to water,
if all the three containers are mixed together……53 115