Practice Mixture Questions and Answers

• Two alloys are combined to create a new alloy. The first alloy contains 20% copper, and the second alloy contains 40% copper. If the resulting alloy has 30...
• A factory has a mixture containing 60% iron and 40% copper. If 20 kg of copper is added, resulting in a mixture that is 50% iron, what was the initial weig...
• A chemical plant produces two types of solutions, Solution X and Solution Y, which it combines to create a final product. The details are as follows: Solut...
• In a mixture, the ratio of milk to water is 4:5. If the mixture is augmented by adding 12 liters of milk and 20 liters of water, the new ratio of milk to w...
• A mixture consists of milk and water in a 5:4 ratio. If 108 liters of this mixture are removed and 64 liters of water are then added, the new quantity of w...
• A mixture weighing 600 grams consists of sand and cement in a ratio of 3:7. If an additional 20 grams of sand and 80 grams of cement are added to it, what ...
• Bucket A holds 600 liters of a mixture with milk and water in a 3:5 ratio. Calculate the percentage, 'x', of the mixture removed if the extracted portion c...
• A container has 60 liters of a mixture of milk and water in the ratio of 3:2. How many liters of water should be added to make the ratio 2:3?
• A merchant has 20 liters of alcohol. To achieve a 75% profit by selling the mixture at the original cost price of the alcohol, how much water should he mix...
• A mixture measuring 720 ml consists of milk and water in an 8:7 ratio. How much water should be added to ensure that the water content is 12.5% greater tha...
• A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio of 3:2. If 15 liters of water is added to the mixture, the ratio becomes 3:5. Find the initial quantity o...
• A mixture contains milk and water, where the difference between the quantities of milk and water is 20% of the total mixture, which is 180 ml. If adding 18...
• Mixture 'A' consists of 'm' liters of milk, while mixture 'B' includes '11 + m' liters of milk. Determine the ratio in which mixture 'B' to mixture 'A' sho...
• In a solution, 35% of the water's quantity is chlorine. After extracting 81 liters of this solution and adding 15 liters of chlorine and 15 liters of water...
• A container holds 'x' liters of a mixture composed of liquids A and B in a 5:2 ratio. If 25% of this mixture is removed and then 6 liters of liquid B are a...
• A mixture containing 350 liters has milk and water in a ratio of 4:3. If 40 liters of milk and 'x' liters of water are added to it, the new ratio of milk t...
• A mixture contains 416 ml of milk and water in a ratio of 8:5. If the mixture is augmented by adding 144 ml of milk and 160 ml of water, what will be the n...
• A mixture containing 120 liters of milk and water has 35% of its volume as water. If 24 liters of pure water are added to this mixture, the difference in v...
• A vessel holds (p + 200) liters of milk and p liters of honey. When 110 liters of honey and 50 liters of milk are added to the vessel, the ratio of milk to...
• A container initially holds 120 litres of pure alcohol. First, 18 litres of alcohol is removed and replaced with an equal quantity of water. Then, 18 litre...
• In a mixture of 144 litres (milk + water), the quantity of milk is 40% greater than that of water. After 2P litres of the mixture is removed, the quantity ...
• A container can hold 1,000 liters of liquid. If it is filled with 30% water and 70% oil, how many liters of oil are in the container? If 50 liters of oil i...
• Two alloys are mixed in the ratio of 3:5. The first alloy contains 60% gold, while the second alloy contains 80% gold. Find the percentage of gold in the r...
• A mixture contains 60 liters of milk and water in the ratio 3:2. How much water should be added to make the ratio of milk to water 3:4?
• A container contains a mixture of 50 liters of milk and water in the ratio 5:3. If 8 liters of the mixture is taken out and replaced by water, what is the ...
• A 200-litre mixture of milk and water is currently in the ratio 3:5. To reduce the percentage of milk in the mixture to 25%, how much additional water must...
• A man buys two varieties of sugar weighing 50 kg and 80 kg at ₹60 and ₹70 per kg respectively. He mixes the two varieties and sells the entire mixture ...
• A company manufactures two types of beverages: Beverage X, which costs 20 per liter, and Beverage Y, which costs 32 per liter. They aim to produce 150 lite...
• A shopkeeper buys 40 kg of sugar at ₹30 per kg and 60 kg of sugar at ₹35 per kg. He mixes them and sells the entire quantity at ₹40 per kg. If his ov...
• A solution contains 10% water. How much water should be added to 30 liters of the sugar and water solution to increase the water content to 25%?
• A container holds a mixture of petrol and diesel in the ratio 11:5. If 32 litres of the mixture is removed and replaced with 4 litres of diesel, resulting ...
• A trader mixes two types of sugar costing ₹42/kg and ₹60/kg in the ratio 3:2. He sells the mixture at ₹55/kg. What is his percentage profit?
• A container contains a mixture of two liquids, A and B, in the ratio of 5:7. If 15 liters of liquid A is replaced by liquid B, the ratio becomes 1: 2. How ...
• A mixture consisting of 40 liters of milk and water has water accounting for 10% of its total volume. To increase the percentage of water in the mixture to...
• A 480 ml mixture has milk and honey in the ratio 7:h. After adding 96 ml of milk and 24 ml of honey to this mixture, the ratio of milk to honey in the resu...
• A container holds (p + 80) liters of juice and 'p' liters of water. If 60 liters of juice and (p/2) liters of water are added to this mixture, the quantity...
• In a blend of milk and water, the milk's quantity exceeds the water's by 37 ml. After 75% of this mixture is removed and 10.75 ml of milk is added, the mil...
• Two types of pulses, priced at ₹80 per kg and ₹90 per kg, are mixed in a ratio such that the resulting mixture is sold at ₹107.5 per kg with a 25% pr...
• The ratio of milk to honey in mixtures P, Q, and R is as follows: In P, the ratio of milk to honey is 7:3. In Q, the ratio of milk to honey is 1:1. In R, t...
• A shopkeeper purchased 150 kg of rice at ₹40 per kg. He sold 60% of the rice at a profit of 25% and the rest at a loss of 15%. Find the overall percentag...