Solving Mixture Problems Answers

Students are given 3 minutes to complete each multiple-choice question on a test and 8 minutes for each free-response question. There are 15 questions on the test and the students have been given 55 minutes to complete it.Which value could replace x in the table?

Giuliana has 22 quarters and dollar coins worth a total of $10.75.

A restaurant freezes a cherry and lime juice mixture to create slushes. Cherry juice costs $5 per quart, and lime juice costs $3 per quart. Each day, the restaurant spends a total of $36 on 8 quarts of juice. The restaurant manager organizes the information in the table below.Which equation can be used to determine the amount of cherry juice in each mixture?

A collection of 108 coins containing only quarters and nickels is worth $21.

The hardcover version of a book weighs 7 ounces while its paperback version weighs 5 ounces. Forty-five copies of the book weigh a total of 249 ounces.Which value could replace x in the table?

A snack cart sells lemonade for $2 and hot dogs for $5. The vendor sold 86 items today for a total of $330.

Shelby mixes a 25% bleach solution with 5 cups of a 10% bleach solution, resulting in a 20% bleach solution. The table shows the amount of each solution used.What is the value of x?

A ride on the roller coaster costs 4 tickets while the boat ride only costs 3 tickets. Michael went on the two rides a total of 10 times and spent a total of 37 tickets.

Maki uses 20 gallons of a solution with an unknown ethanol concentration and 60 gallons of a 12% ethanol solution to make 80 gallons of a 10% solution. The table shows the amount of each solution.What is the value of x, the concentration of the unknown ethanol solution?

A chemist mixes 4 liters of one acid solution with 10 liters of a 40% solution, resulting in a 30% acid solution. The table shows the amount of each solution used.What is the value of x, the acid concentration of the first solution?