Mixture Allegation and Replacement

Q 1Seeta started a business by investing Rs. 4,200. After six months, Geeta joined with
an amount of Rs. 5,400. Three years after Seeta‛s investment, they earned a profit of
Rs. 3,190. What was Seeta‛s share in the profit?

Q 2 Abhishek and Rani started a partnership business by investing Rs.1 cr and Rs.2 cr
respectively in the beginning of the year. Each of them withdrew one-fourth of their
investment after each quarter till 2nd quarter. At this point Susmita and Randeep joined
them with Rs.50 lakh and Rs.1 cr respectively. Randeep withdrew his entire investment
after 3 months. If the profit at the end of the year is Rs. 41 lakhs, the combined share
of Abhishek and Rani is

Q 3 A vegetable vendor mixes 68 kg of tomatoes purchased at Rs. 63 per kg with 85 kg

of tomatoes purchased at Rs. 81 per kg. Find the average cost price of the resultant
tomatoes per kg

Q 4 Two alloys containing copper and iron in the ratios 5 : 8 and 5 : 3 are melted in
equal quantities. Find the ratio of iron to copper in the resulting alloy.

Q 5 Two solutions of milk and water are mixed in the ratio 2 : 3 by volume. The resulting
solution contains 40% milk. Find milk concentration in the first solution if the
concentration of milk in the second is 60%.

Q 6 Ratios of milk and water in two solutions are 2 : 3 and 3 : 2 respectively. Content of
these two solutions are mixed in the ratio 1 : 4. Find the ratio of milk and water in the
resultant solution
Q 7 The cost of oil is Rs. 100 per kilogram. After adulteration with another oil, which
costs Rs. 50 per kilogram, Ram sells the mixture at Rs. 96 per kilogram, thereby making
a profit of 20%. In what ratio does he mix the two kinds of oil?

Q 8 Goods are purchased for Rs. 450 and one-third of them are sold at a loss of 10%.
At what profit percentage should the remainder be sold so as to gain 20% on the whole
transaction ?

Q 9 A person covers 800 km partly at a speed of 50 kmph and partly at a speed of 150
kmph, in 10 hours over all. What is the distance (in km) covered at the speed of 150
kmph?

Q 10 How many kg of sugar costing Rs. 11 per kg must be mixed with 21 kg of sugar
costing Rs. 9 per kg, so that there is a gain of 10% by selling the mixture at Rs. 10.45
per kg?

Q 11 There are 48 students in a class, Rs. 24 are distributed among them so that each
boy gets 60 p and each girl gets 40 p. Find the number of boys and girls in the class

Q 12 The ratio of the quantities of acid and water in a mixture is 1 : 3. If 5 litres of

acid is further added to the mixture, the new ratio becomes 1 : 2. The quantity of new
mixture (in litres) is

Q 13 68 litres of milk was added to 3 : 7 milk to water solution. The ratio of milk and
water in the resulting solution is 7 : 5. What is the volume of the original solution?
Q 14 What quantity of each of the two milk–water solutions having milk and water in the
ratio 5 : 4 and 2 : 1 be taken and mixed to form a solution in which the ratio of milk to
water is 1 : 1?

Q 15 If certain quantity of water, which equals to 10% of the volume of the solution, is
added to a solution of milk and water, and then 10% of the solution is removed, the ratio
of milk to water becomes 2 : 3. Find the ratio of milk to water in the original solution.

Q 16 A sugar and water solution of 100 litres consists of 20% of sugar. If the solution
is heated, water evaporates and sugar concentration becomes 80% of the solution. What
amount of water has evaporated?

Q 17 From a solution containing milk and water in the ratio 3 : 4, 10 L is removed and
replaced by water. If the resulting solution contains milk and water in the ratio 1 : 2,
then what was the volume (in litre) of the original solution?

Q 18 A container contains pure milk. 10% of this is removed and replaced with water.
Then 25% is removed and replaced with water and finally 30% is removed and replaced
with water. What is the percentage of milk in the final solution?

Q 19 A beaker had 20 L of alcohol-glycerol solution in the ratio 4:1 by volume. In the

first round, 4 L of the mixture is removed and replaced with glycerol. In the second
round, 5 L of the resultant solution is removed and replaced with glycerol. Finally, 10 L
of the resultant mixture is removed and replaced with glycerol. What is the final volume
of glycerol in the mixture?
Q 20 A beaker contains a mixture of 175 ml water and 700 ml milk. Ranu takes out 10%
of the mixture and substitutes it by water of the same amount. The process is repeated
once again. What is the percentage of water in the mixture now?

Q 21 Two identical vessels are filled with alcohol. From the first vessel ‘a‛ litres of the
solution is taken out and replaced with ‘a‛ litres of water. From the resulting mixture ‘a‛
litres of the mixture is removed and again replaced with ‘a‛ litres of water. The same
operation is done in the second vessel the same number of times, but the amount of
solution removed and replaced with water is ‘2a‛ litres. What fraction of the volume of
the vessels is ‘a‛ if the strength of alcohols in the two vessels finally is in the ratio 25 :
16?

Q 22 An empty container is filled with pure alcohol. Alcohol is slowly allowed to run out
and when the container is ¼ empty, it is filled with water. Again, alcohol is allowed to run
out from the resulting solution and when the container is half empty it is again filled with
water. Finally, when it is 3/4th empty, it is again filled with water. Find the final
percentage of alcohol in the container

Q 23 A cylindrical container is 4/7 full. From this, if x litres is removed, the container
becomes only 1/4 full. If 35 L is now added to the container it will become half full. Find
the value of x and the capacity of the container respectively

Q 24 Product M is produced by mixing chemical X and chemical Y in the ratio of 5 : 4.

Chemical X is prepared by mixing two raw materials, A and B, in the ratio of 1 : 3.
Chemical Y is prepared by mixing raw materials, B and C, in the ratio of 2 : 1. Then the
final mixture is prepared by mixing 864 units of product M with water. If the
concentration of the raw material B in the final mixture is 50%, how much water was
added to product M?
Q 25 20 L and 35 L of two different kinds of solution are mixed to obtain a 90% milk
solution. What can be the minimum value of the ratio of milk to water in any of the two
solutions that were initially taken? (Both the solutions contain milk and water only)

Q 26 Two alloys of iron have different percentages of iron in them. The first of them
weighs 6 kg and the second one weighs 12 kg. One piece each, of equal weight, was cut
off from both the alloys. The piece from the first was mixed with the leftover part of
the second alloy and the piece from the second with the leftover part of the first alloy.
As a result the percentage of iron became the same in both the alloys. What was the
weight of each cut out pieces?

Q 27 Gopal sells fruit juice mixture using orange juice and pineapple juice. Gopal prepares
this mixture by drawing out a jug of orange juice from a 10 litre container filled with
orange juice, and replacing it with pineapple juice. If Gopal draws out another jug from
the resulting mixture and replaces it with pineapple juice, the container will have equal
volumes of orange juice and pineapple juice. The volume of the jug, in litres, is

Q 28 A person buys some apples and mangoes from the market. Cost price of a mango is
twice that of an apple and the selling price of a mango is thrice that of an apple. By
selling an apple at twice its cost price, he makes 150% profit on the whole. Find the
proportion of mangoes to apples.