Mixture and Alligation (SSC) (Part-2)

Total Questions: 36

31. 1/2 of 4 kg of an alloy is lead and rest of it is tin. 1/6 of 5 kg of another alloy is lead and the rest of it is tin. Find the ratio of lead and tin in the mixture of the given quantities of these two alloys. [SSC MTS 14/07/2022 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (c) 17 : 37
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32. A beaker is filled with a liquid, 3 parts of which are water and 7 parts some medicine. What part of the mixture should be replaced with water so that the resultant mixture has water and medicine in a ratio 1 : 1 ? [SSC CHSL 02/06/2022(Morning)]

Correct Answer: (a) 2/7
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33. A vessel contained a solution of acid and water, in which water was 64%. Four litres of the solution was taken out of the vessel and the same quantity of water was added. If the resulting solution contains 30% acid, the quantity (in litres) of the water in the solution, at the beginning in the vessel, was: [SSC CGL Tier II (03/02/2022)]

Correct Answer: (b) 15.36
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34. A liquid of 900g is the mixture of flour, sugar and butter. In this solution flour is three times as much as sugar and sugar is two times as much as butter. Find the quantity of flour in grams. [SSC MTS 08/10/2021(Morning)]

Correct Answer: (a) 600
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35. A large container has a 50 litre mixture of juice and water in the ratio 3 : 2. To this , 60 litre juice and water mixture is added, which has a juice to water ratio of 2 : 1. After this , 11 litres of the solution is replaced with pure juice. What is the ratio of water to juice in the final mixture ? [SSC MTS 11/10/2021 (Morning)]

Correct Answer: (d) 18 : 37
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36. Kulbhushan started a juice (syrup + water) counter. Initially, he had 140 litres of juice which had 40% water in it. He sold 30 litres of the juice. Then he added equal amounts of syrup and water. Now the ratio of water to syrup became 3 : 4. What quantity of water was added? [SSC MTS 13/10/2021 (Afternoon)]

Correct Answer: (d) 22 litres
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