Alligation or Mixture problems
In what ratio must water be added to spirit to gain 25% by selling it at cost price?

1 : 4
3 : 4
4 : 1
4 : 3

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Alligation or Mixture problems
A container is full of milk. One-third of milk is taken out of it and replaced by same quantity of water. Then again one-third of the mixture is taken out of it and replaced by the same quantity of water. The process is repeated 4 times. If 16 litres of milk is left in the container at the end of 4th operation, find the capacity of the container.

85 litres
82 litres
81 litres
76 litres

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A milkman claims to sell milk at its cost price, still, he is making a profit of 30% since he has mixed some amount of water in the milk. What is the % of milk in the mixture?

71.02%
63.22%
76.92%
86.42%

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An alloy contains gold and silver in the ratio 5 : 8 and another alloy contains gold and silver in the ratio 5 : 3. If equal amount of both the alloys are melted together, then the ratio of gold and silver in the resulting alloy is?

105/103
108/115
113/108
103/113

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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 water is 16 : 65. How much wine did the cask hold originally?

42 litres
32 litres
24 litres
18 litres

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