Mathematics -1
Mixture
Instructor – Abrar Saud (IBA, DU)
1. In 24 kg of salt water , 8% is salt; of another mixture , 4% is salt. How
many kg of 2ⁿᵈ solution must be added to the first mixture to get a solution
that is 5% salt ?
A. 24 B.36 C.48 D.72 E. 96
2. 16 ounces of fresh orange juice contains 216 calories and 216 ounces of
fresh grapefruit juice contains 174 calories. If an 8 ounce mixture of these two
juices contains 94 calories , what fraction of the mixture is orange juice ?
A. 1/3 B. 12/27 C.1/2 D.2/3
3. The ratio of water and salt in a 16 kg of salt-water solution 3:1 . How
much water in kg must be added to make the ratio of water to salt 4:1?
A. 2 B.3 C.4 D.6
4. Two varieties of sugar are mixed in a certain ratio. The cost of the mixture
per kg is tk .50 less than that of the superior variety and tk 0.75 more than that
of the inferior variety . What was the ratio of the superior variety to the inferior
variety in the mixture ?
A. 5:2 B. 3 : 2 C.2:1 D. 1:1
5. Mixture X is 40 percent peanut and 60 percent hazelnut by weight . Mixture Y
is 25 percent peanut and 75 percent cashewnut . If a mixture of X and Y contains
30 percent peanuts, what percent of the weight of this mixture is X ?
A. 10 % B. 33.33% C.40 % D.50%
6. A man bought 50 kgs of sugar at the rate of 40 tk/kg . He mixed it with some
lower grade sugar, costing 25tk/kg and sold the entire lot at tk 32/kg and made a
profit of tk 160. How much inferior quality sugar did he mix ?
A. 100 B.90 C.80 D.70
7. In a sugar-water solution , the ratio of water to sugar is 8:3 . If you add 2
kgs of sugar, the ratio becomes 2:1. What is the amount of sugar in the
original solution in kg ?
A.3 B.4.5 C. 6 D.8
8. How many liters of water should be added to a 30 litre mixture of milk and
water containing milk and water in the ratio of 7 : 3 such that the resultant
mixture has 40 % water in it ?
A.7 B.10 C.5 D.12
9. A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first can contains 25% water and the
rest is milk. The second can contains 50 % water. How much milk should he
mix from each of the cans respectively so as to get 12 liters of milk such that the
ratio of water to milk is 3:5 in that mixture ?
A. 4,8 B. 6,6 C.5,7 D.8,9
10. A 60 liter mixture of sugar and water contains sugar and water in the
ratio of 2:3 . How many liters of the mixture should be replaced by sugar so
that the ratio of sugar and water becomes 1:1?
A.6 B.10 C.15 D.20
11. Shuaib has 20 ounces of 20% salt solution . How much water should be
evaporated to make it a 30% solution ?
A.12.67 B.6.67 C.5.67 D.10
12. Sarah wants to make a 100 ml of 5% alcohol solution mixing a quantity
of a 2% alcohol with a 7% alcohol solution. What are the quantities of each
of the two solutions (2% and 7%) she has to use?
A.20,80 B.35,65 C.60,40 D.40,60
13. Silver is 26 times as heavy as Gold and Iron is 17 times as heavy as
Gold. You have to prepare a mixture of silver and iron which is 23 times as
heavy as gold. What will be the ratio of Iron to Silver in the mixture ?
A.2:1 B. 2:3 C.3:5 D.1:2
14. A mixture of salt and water has a ratio of 4:5. Another mixture of salt
and water has a ratio of 5:3.In what proportion these two mixtures should be
mixed to get salt and water in ratio of 1:1 ?
a. 2:1 B.3:2 C. 2:3 D.3:4 E. None
15 .A trader purchases blue paint and yellow paint at a price of tk110 and tk100 per
liter respectively . He mixes blue and yellow paint at a ratio of 1:2 to make a certain
paint of green colour. He sells the green paint at a price of 120 tk per liter. If the
trader makes a profit of tk 2000. How much yellow paint (in kgs ) did he use in the
mixture ?
A.72 B.80 C.85 D.90
A 48 gallon solution of salt and water is 10% salt. How many gallons
of water must be added to the solution in order to decrease the salt to
8% of the volume?
A. 8
B. 12
C. 13
D. 14
E. 16
A dishonest milk man tops up his bucket which is only 4/5 th full of milk with
water. He again removes 5 liters of this mixture from the bucket and adds an
equal quantity of water. If milk is now 60% of the mixture, what is the capacity of
the bucket?
1. 15 lit
2. 20 lit
3. 22.5 lit
4. 25 lit
5. 30 lit
Several litres of acid were drawn off from a 63 L
vessel full of acid and an equal amount of water is added. Again the same volume
of the mixture was drawn off and replaced by water. As a result, the vessel
contained 28 L of pure acid. How much acid was drawn off initially ?
1. 12 L
2. 16 L
3. 18 L
4. 21 L
5. 22 L
