Mixtures Handout
Intensive Batch
Concept 1
1. A and B are two alloys of gold and copper
prepared by mixing metals in the ratio 5 : 3 and 5
: 11 respectively. Equal quantities of these alloys
are melted to form a third alloy C. The ratio of
gold and copper in the alloy C is (SSC EXAM)
A,B  5.
       

c
A) 25 : 33 B) 33 : 25
C) 15 : 17 D) 17 : 15
2. A and B are two alloys of gold and copper
prepared by mixing metals in the ratio 7 : 2 and 7
: 11 respectively. If equal quantities of the alloys
are melted to form a third alloy C, the ratio of
gold and copper in C will be (SSC CGL MAINS)
A,B 
       

 c
A) 5 : 7 B) 5 : 9 C) 7 : 5 D) 9 : 5
3. One cup has juice and water in the ratio 5 : 2,
while another cup of the same capacity has them
in the ratio 7 : 4, respectively. If contents of both
the cups (when full) are poured in a vessel, then
what will be the final ratio of water to juice in the
vessel? (SSC MAINS 2020)

  
    
 

A) 25 : 52 B) 26 : 25
C) 25 : 26 D) 52 : 25
4. Two vessels of 17 litre capacity is contains the
mixture of milk and water in the ratio 11 : 4 and 7
: 5 both mixture are in the large vessels. What is
the ratio of water and milk in new vessels.


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      
 

A) 31 : 17 B) 57 : 23
C) 25 : 12 D) 79 : 41
A and B are two alloys of gold, silver and copper
prepared by mixing in the ratio 2 : 5 : 9 and 1 : 3
: 8 respectively. If equal quantities of the alloys
are melted to form a third alloy C. The ratio of
gold, silver and copper in c will be?
A,B
 

 C

A) 11 : 27 : 58 B) 6 : 15 : 27
C) 4 : 12 : 32 D) 10 : 27 : 59
6. Two bottles contain acid and water in the ratio 2
: 3 and 1 : 2 respectively. These are mixed in the
ratio 1 : 3. What is the ratio of acid and water in
the new mixture?
      


(SSC CGL MAINS)
A) 7 : 13 B) 11 : 57 C) 23 : 37 D) 1 : 3
7. In two types of brass, the ratio of Copper to zinc
are 8 : 3 and 15 : 7 respectively. If the two types
of brass be melted and mixed in the ratio 5 : 2 a
new type of brass is obtained. The ratio of copper
to zinc in this new type of brass is (SSC CGL
MAINS)


 

A) 3 : 2 B) 2 : 3 C) 3 : 4 D) 5 : 2
8. The ratios of copper to zinc in alloys A and B are
3 :4 and 5 : 9 respectively. A and B are taken in
the ratio 2 : 3 and melted to form a new alloy C.
What is the ratio of copper to zinc in C? (MAINS
 2018)
A,B
AB
   C

A) 27 : 43 B) 8 : 13 C) 3 : 5 D) 9 : 11
9. In two types of brass the raio of copper, zinc and
tin are 3 : 2 : 5 and 3 : 4 : 1 respectively. If the 13.
two types brass be melted and mixed in the ratio
3 : 2 new type of brass is obtained. The ratio of
copper, zinc and tin in this new type of brass is?


    

A) 64 : 66 : 70 B) 65 : 64 : 70
C) 33 : 32 : 35 D) 31 : 33 : 35
10. Alloy A contains metals x and y only in the ratio 5
: 2 and alloy B contains these metals in the ratio 3 14.
: 4. Alloy C is prepared by mixing A and B in the
ratio 4 : 5. The percentage of x in alloy C is: (SSC
EXAM)
Ax y 
B 
 A  B 
    C 
C x 
5 4
A) 56 B) 55 C) 44 D) 45
9 9
11. Mixture A contains chocolate and milk in the ratio
15.
4 : 3 and mixture B contains chocolate and milk
in the ratio 5 : 2. A and B are taken in the ratio 5
: 6 and mixed to form a nex mixture. The
percentage of chocolate in the new mixture is
closet to: (SSC MAINS 2020)
A
B 
A B
     

A) 35% B) 69% C) 31% D) 65% 16.
12. In two alloys A and B, the ratio of zinc to tin is 5
: 2 and 3 : 4 respectively. 7kg of the alloy A and
21 kg of the alloy B are mixed together to form a
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the new alloy? (SSC EXAM)
A,B     
 A
 B

A) 2 : 1 B) 1 : 2 C) 2 : 3 D) 1 : 1
The ratio of spirit and water in two mixtures of
20 litre and 36 litre is 3 : 7 and 7 : 5 respectively.
Both the mixtures are mixed together. Now the
ratio of the spirit and water in the new mixture is
(SSC EXAM)




A) 25 : 29 B) 9 : 10
C) 27 : 29 D) 27 : 31
There are three containers of equal capacity. The
ratio of Sulphuric acid to water in the first container
is 3 : 2, that in the second container is 7 : 3 and in
the third container it is 11 : 4. If all the liquids are
mixed together, then the ratio of Sulphuric acid
to water in the mixture will be: (SSC EXAM)
 


 

A) 61 : 29 B) 61 : 28 C) 60 : 29 D) 5 : 29
Three glasses of equal volume contain acid mixed
with water. The ratios of acid and water are 2 :
3, 3 : 4 and 4 : 5 respectively. Contents of these
glasses are poured in a large vessel. The ratio of
acid and water in the large vessel is:




A) 411 : 540 B) 401 : 544
C) 417 : 564 D) 407 : 560
The proportion of acid and water in three samples
is 2 : 1, 3 : 2 and 5 : 3. A mixture containing equal
quantities of all three samples is made. The ratio
of water and acid in the mixture is: (SSC EXAM)
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

21.

A) 120 : 133 B) 227 : 133
C) 227 : 120 D) 133 : 227
17. In 3 vessels, each of 54.9 ltr of capacity, mixture
of milk and water is filled. The ratio of milk and
water are 2:5, 3:1, 5:3 in the respective vessels.
If all the three vessels are emptied in to a single
large vessel, then what will be ratio of water to
milk in the resultant mixture?




A) 93:76 B) 76:93 C) 93:75 D) 75:93
18. Three bottles of equal capacity have mixture of 22.
milk and water in ratio 5 : 7, 7 : 9 and 2 : 1
respectively. These three bottles are emptied into
a large bottle. What is the percentage of milk in
the new mixture? (CGL 2017)
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  
    

A) 49.6 B) 52.3 C) 51.2 D) 50.7 23.
19. The ratio of milk and water in mixtures of four
equal containers are 5 : 3, 3 : 1, 1 : 5 and 7 : 5
respectively. This four mixture emptied into a single
large vessel. Then find the ratio of water to milk?
(SSC EXAM)


      

A) 51 : 45 B) 45 : 51
C) 49 : 41 D) 47 : 49
20. 4 vessels of equal size contains mixture of sprit
and water, the concentration of sprit in 4 vessels 24.
60%, 70%, 75%, 80% if all the 4 mixture are mixed,
find the ratio of sprit to water in resultant mixture.


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
A) 31 : 17 B) 57 : 23 C) 25 : 12 D) 79 : 41
Three containers whose volumes are in the ratio
of 2 : 3 : 4 are full of mixture of spirit and water.
In the 1st container, the ratio of spirit and water
is 4 : 1, in the 2nd container the ratio is 11 : 4 and
in the 3rd container ratio is 7 : 3. All the three
mixtures are mixed in a big container. The ratio
of spirit and water in the resultant mixture is: (SSC
EXAM)
      

        


A) 4 : 9 B) 11 : 4 C) 5 : 10 D) 9 : 5
Three vessels of capacity 2 litre, 3 litre and 1 litre
contains the mixture of milk and water in the ratio
5 : 3, 3 : 1 and 9 : 7. All mixtures into large ves-
sels, find the ratio of milk and water in new mix-
ture?
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

  

A) 5 : 3 B) 65 : 31 C) 3 : 1 D) 22 : 5
Three containers A,B and C are having mixture
of milk and water in the ratio 1:3, 2:3 and 2:5
respectively. If the capacities of the containers
are in the ratio 2:3:5, find the ratio of milk to
water, if the mixture of all 3 containers are mixed
together.
A, B  C   




A) 143:296 B) 438:962
C) 348:962 D) 219 : 481
There are 3 mixture contain milk and water. In
1st mixture milk is 30% of mixture and in 2nd
mixture milk is 22.22% more than water, in 3rd
mixture milk is 40% less than water. If the
capacities of the containers are in the ratio 3:5:4,
find the ratio of milk to water, if the mixture of all
3 containers are mixed together.

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

  

A) 103 : 137 B) 137 : 103
C) 105 : 132 D) 132 : 105
25. There are 3 mixture contain milk and water. In
2 
1st mixture milk is 66 % of water and in 2nd
3
mixture milk is 25% less than water, in 3rd
2 28.
mixture milk is 14 % more than water. If the
7
16 liters first mixture, 22.4 litres second mixture
and 9.6 litres third mixture are mixed together
then find the ratio of water and milk in the new
mixture.

2  
  66 3 % 

2       
 14 7 % 

 

A) 11 : 14 B) 15 : 11 C) 14 : 11 D) 11 : 17 29.
26. Three vessels whose capacity are in 4 : 3 : 2 are
completely filled with milk and water. Ratio of
milk and water in mixture are 7 : 3, 4 : 5, and 3 :
1 1
2 respectively. Taking of first and of
9 15
1 A  B
second and
12
of third, a new mixture obtained
% of water in new mixture?



 30.


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A) 42.4 B) 38.4 C) 61.6 D) 57.6
Three vessels of capacity of 7 litre, 5 litre and 11
litre contains the mixture of milk and water in the
ratio 5 : 3, 3 : 1 and 9 : 7. 2/7 from first vessel, 1/5
from 2nd vessel and 2/11 from 3rd vessel are emp-
tied into a large vessel, find the ratio of milk and
water in new mixture?





A) 5 : 3 B) 65 : 31 C) 3 : 1 D) 22 : 5
A milkman uses three containers for selling milk,
their capacities being 40L, 30L and 20L
respectively. He fills respectively 87.5%, 80%
and 90% of the containers with a mix of milk and
water in the ratios, 3 : 2, 5 : 1 and 7 : 2
respectively. What is the ratio of total quantity of
milk to that of water carried by him? (CHSL
2018)





A) 7 : 2 B) 31 : 12 C) 35 : 9 D) 5 : 2
Two mixtures A and B are made by mixing alco-
hol and soda in the ratio of 5 : 8 and 3 : 7. Now
equal amounts of these mixtures are added and 13
liters of water is also added to it. If the concentra-
tion of water in the final mixture is 20%, find the
ratio of alcohol, soda and water in the final mix-
ture.


 

 

A) 89 : 171 : 65 B) 99 : 172 : 66
C) 70 : 100 : 99 D) 92 : 116 : 98
In a vessel a mixture contains milk, water & alco-
hol in ratio 4 : 5 : 3 resp. In an another vessel a
mixture containing water & alcohol in ratio 7 : 3.
If 4 Ltrs mixture from 1st vessel is mixed with
 5Ltrs mixture from second vessel. Find part of
alcohol in new mixture?
  


     
  

7 5 5 3
A) B) C) D)
18 13 18 11
31. In an alloy gold, silver & bronze contain 90%
bronze, 7% gold & 3% silver. A second alloy of
bronze & silver only is melted with first & mix-
ture contains 85% bronze, 5% gold & 10% silver.
Find % of bronze in second alloy.

7% 
 
        
    
 5% 

 
A) 62.5 B) 72.5 C) 37.5 D) 27.5
32. Two mixtures equal in quantity contain wine, wa-
ter & alcohol in 6 : 5 : 3 & 3 : 5 : 6 resp. From 1st
mixture 20% of wine, 25% of water & 40% of
alcohol is taken out & from second mixture same
% of 3 constluents is taken out. Now remaining
mixtures are added together. Find ratio of wine,
water & alcohol in new mixture
     

  
 
      
  Concept - 2
  37. In 1050 ml solution the ratio of milk and water is 6
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A) 36 : 18 : 24 B) 25 : 18 : 36
C) 18 : 24 : 25 D) 24 : 25 : 18
33. Equal amounts of water were poured into two
empty jars of different capacities which made one
1 1
jar full & other jar full. If water in jar with
4 3
less capacity is than poured into jar with greater
capacity, what fraction of largest jar will be filled
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with water?
       

      
 


2 1 3 1
A) B) C) D)
3 2 4 3
34. 60 kg of an alloy A is mixed with 100 kg of alloy
B. If alloy A has lead and tin in the ratio 3 : 2 and
alloy B has tin and copper in the ratio 1 : 4, the
amount of tin in the new alloy is
A B
A 
B  

 (SSC CGL MAINS)
A) 53 kg B) 44 kg C) 80 kg D) 24 kg
35. 40 litres of 60% concentration of acid solution is
added to 35 litres of 80% concentration of acid
solution. What is the concentration of acid in the
new solution? (SSC CGL MAINS)



1 2
A) 69% B) 66% C) 69 % D) 66 %
3 3
36. Fresh fruit contains 68% water and dry fruit
contains 20% water. How much dry fruit can be
obtained from 100kg of fresh fruit? (SSC CPO
16 March 2019)
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

A) 60 B) 80 C) 40 D) 20
: 1 how much quantity of water should be added
so that ratio become 5 : 1?
 


A) 65 ml B) 45 ml C) 75 ml D) 30 ml
38. Copper and bronze are in the ratio 3 : 4 in 350
gm of an alloy. The quantity (in gm) of copper to
be added to it to make the ratio 4 : 3 is (SSC
 CHSL 2021) mixture, then the percentage of acid becomes 15
 percent. What is the original quantity of mixture?

 
     
A) 113.33 gm B) 116.67 gm 
C) 123.33 gm D) 126.67 gm 
39. A container contains 20L mixture in which there A) 30 litres B) 40 litres
is 10% sulphuric acid. Find the quantity of C) 56 litres D) 25 litres
sulphuric acid to be added in it to make the 44. The ratio of the quantities of an acid and water in
solution to contain 25% sulphuric acid. (Tier 2, a mixture is 1 : 3. If 5 litres of acid is further added
2019 (18 Oct 2020) to the mixture. The new ratio becomes 1 : 2. The
quantity of new mixture (in litres) is (SSC EXAM)
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
 
         
 
             

 A) 32 B) 40 C) 42 D) 45
A) 3L B) 4L C) 5L D) 2L 45. In a mixture of 35L ratio of petrol to alcohol is 4 :
40. How much water (in ml) should be added to 300 1, if 7 L of alcohol is added to mixture ratio of
ml of a 75% milk and water mixture so that it petrol to alcohol changes to a new ratio. If we
want the ratio of petrol to alcohol to change back
becomes a 45% milk and water mixture? (SSC
to original value, how much petrol is to be added
CHSL 2021) now?
   
 

    

A) 150 B) 250 C) 200 D) 300 A) 35 B) 28 C) 21 D) 32
41. A mixture contains alcohol and water in the ratio 46. A jar contains 10 red marbles and 30 green ones.
4 : 3. If 5 litres of water is added to the mixture, How many red marbles must be added to the jar
the ratio becomes 4 : 5. The quantity of alcohol so that 60% of the marbles will be red? (SSC
in the given mixture is CGL MAINS)
 
       
  
(SSC EXAM) 
A) 3 litres B) 4 litres A) 25 B) 30 C) 35 D) 40
C) 15 litres D) 10 litres 47. A mixture is composed of 11 parts of pure milk
42. The ratio of milk and water in a vessel is 4:7. If and 2 parts of water. If 35 litres of water were
25ltr water is added then ratio becomes 6:13. added to the mixture then the new mixture will
Find the initial quantity of mixture (in ltr)? contain twice as much pure milk as water, then
 how many litres of pure milk does the original
 mixture contain?

  

A) 150 B) 132 C) 165 D) 175 
43. A mixture of acid and water contains 20 percent 
acid. When 10 litres of water is added to the
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(SSC CGL MAINS)
A) 110 B) 55 C) 220 D) 70
48. An alloy contains copper and tin in the ratio 3 : 2.
If 250 gm of copper is added to this alloy then
copper in it becomes double the quantity of tin in
it. What is the amount (in gm) of tin in the alloy?
(SSC CGL MAINS)
       
      
           
 

A) 250 B) 750 C) 1000 D) 500
49. An alloy contains copper, zinc and nickel in the
ratio of 5 : 3 : 2. The quantity of nickel (in kg)
that must be added to 100 kg of this alloy to 54.
have the new ratio 5 : 3 : 3 is (SSC EXAM)


 
A) 8 B) 10 C) 12 D) 15
50. The ratio of milk and water in a vessel is 2:3 by
chemical process if we extract some water then 55.
ratio becomes 5:7 and quantity of mixture reduced
to 36ltr,then find how much quantity of water was
extracted?





A) 1ltr B) 1.5ltr C) 1.25ltr D) 1.15ltr
51. The ratio of milk and water in a vessel is 8:5. If
we added 44ltr milk and 44ltr water then quantity
of milk becomes 28.56% more than water. Find
the initial quantity of water?




A) 48ltr B) 45ltr C) 40ltr D) 60ltr
52. A jar contains a blend of a fruit juice and water in
the ratio 5 : x. When 1 litre of water is added to
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becomes 1 : 1. What is the value of x? (SSC
CGL MAINS)
x 

 x
A) 3 B) 1 C) 2 D) 4
53. A jar contains a blend of a fruit juice and water
in the ratio 15 : x. When 4litre of water is added
to 16litres of the blend the ratio of fruit juice to
water becomes 1 : 1. What is the value of x?
(MAINS 2017)
x

x 
A) 9 B) 8 C) 6 D) 10
A beaker contains acid and water in the ratio 1 :
x. When 300 ml of the mixture and 50 ml of water
are mixed the ratio of acid and water becomes 5
: 2. What is the value of x?
   1 : x.


x
A) 0.2 B) 0.4 C) 0.3 D) 0.1
In a mixture of acid and water, if 1 litre of water
is added, then the new mixture contains 20%
acid. When 1 litre of acid is added to the new
mixture, the acid in the resulting mixture is
1
33 % . The percentage of acid in the original
3
mixutre is (TS SI PRELIMS 2022)
 Acid    
  
      
1
 33 %  
3
  
1 1
A) 50 B) 22 C) 25 D) 37
2 2
56. A drink of chocolate and milk contains 8% pure
chocolate by volume. If 10 litres of pure milk are
added to 50 litres of this drink, the percentage
 of chocolate in the new drink is: (SSC EXAM)
 
             
  

2 1 2 1
A) 6 B) 6 C) 5 D) 5
3 3 3 3
57. In an alloy, the ratio of copper and zinc is 5 : 2. If
1.250 kg of zinc is mixed in 17 kg 500 g of alloy,
then the ratio of copper and zinc will be (SSC
EXAM)
  


A) 2 : 1 B) 2 : 3 C) 3 : 2 D) 1 : 2
58. There are 100L solution of milk and water when
we add 110L milk and 130L water in the solution,
then ratio becomes 3 : 3. Find the ratio of milk and
water in the initial solution?

       


A) 4 : 5 B) 3 : 2 C) 5 : 2 D) 1 : 2
59. The ratio of milk and water in a mixture is 3:7. 63.
We added x ltr of milk to the mixture then ratio
becomes 4:7 and we added 35ltr water to the
mixture, then ratio becomes 6:14. Find the value
of x.

x
 
x 
A) 20ltr B) 24ltr C) 15ltr D) 10ltr
60. When 4ltr water is added to a mixture of milk
and water, the new mixture contains 25% milk
when 16ltr milk is added to the new mixture, the
resultant mixture contains 55% milk. What is the
% of milk in the original mixture? 64.


     

 
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A) 35% B) 50% C) 28.57% D) 30%
61. In a vessel milk is 57.14% less than water. When
p liter milk is added to mixture then ratio of milk
and water becomes 4:7. Now q liter water is
extracted from mixture then this ratio becomes
2:3. Now 20liter milk is added again then new
ratio of milk and water becomes 5:7. Find the
value of (p+q)?

 P
  q

 
(p+q) 
A) 60 B) 120 C) 180 D) 140
62. In a vessel ratio of milk and water is 8:3. When p
ltr milk is added then ratio of milk and water
becomes 28:9 Now in this mixture 6 ltr milk and
3 ltr water is added then ratio of milk and water
becomes 3:1.Find the value of p.

P 
     
p 
A) 9ltr B) 6ltr C) 8ltr D) 12ltr
The ratio of milk and water in a vessel is 5:2.
When x ltr milk is added this ratio becomes 14:5.
Again y ltr water is added and new ratio is 2:1.
Now 25 ltr milk is added to mixture and 15 ltr
water is extracted,then ratio of milk and water
becomes 3:1.Find the value of (y – x)2
       
x
y 


( y-x )2=?
A) 25 B) 36 C) 625 D) 256
A vessel has 10ml of a solution of milk & water
containing 20% milk, x ml milk added to vessel to
reverse this ratio. y ml of water was then added
to vessel to reverse ratio once again. Find x + y.
       

 x 
y
 x + Concept - 3
y. 68. A can contains a mixture of two liquids A and B
A) 140 B) 150 C) 160 D) 170
65. A vessel contains 2.5liters of water and 10liters
of milk. 20% of the contents of the vessel are
removed. To the remaining contents, x liters of
water is added to reverse the ratio of water and
milk. Then y liter of milk is added again to reverse
the ratio of water and milk. Find y. (SBI PO)


x

y 
y =?
A) 100 B) 110 C) 120 D) 130
66. There is a mixture of 200 liters of milk and water.
1/4th part of this mixture is milk. We took out
40liter mixture and added ‘x’ liter milk to this
mixture and the ratio was reversed. Then we
added ‘y’ liter water to this mixture then again
the ratio was reversed. Find the value of (x+y)?


x 
 
 y      
(x+y)=?
A) 960 liters B) 1260 liters
C) 1280 liters D) 640 liters
67. A person is given responsibility to boil milk every
morning. It he gets milk mixed with water in 2 : 3.
Now this mixture is heated for some time so as to
evaporate same part of water. What is ratio of
milk & water in final left over. If one fourth of
mixture is evaporated (Given rate of evaporation
of water is 1.5 times that of milk)
 

 




A) 11 : 19 B) 1 : 3 C) 3 : 2 D) 2 : 3
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in the ratio 7 : 5. When 9 litres of mixture are
drawn off and the can is filled with B, the ratio of
A and B becomes 7 : 9. The quantity of mixture
initially was (SSC EXAM)
A,B

B 

A) 10 B) 20 C) 21 D) 36
69. A vessel contains a solution of two liquids A and
B in the ratio 5:3. When 10 litres of the solution
is taken out and replaced by the same quantity
of B, the ratio of A and B in the vessel becomes
10:11. The quantity (in litres) of the solution in
the vessel was____. (CPO 2019 (13 Dec 2019)
   A  B  
     
     B
 A B 
    

A) 44 B) 42 C) 52 D) 48
70. A jar contains a mixture of 2 liquids A and B in
the ratio 4:1. If 10 litres of mixture is taken out
and 10 litres of liquid B is poured into the jar, the
ratio becomes 2:3. The amount of liquid A con-
tained in the jar initially is?
A,B

B
A
 (AP MAINS 2018)
A) 12 litres B) 13 litres
C) 14 litres D) 16 litres
71. A beaker contains a mixture of two liquids X and
Y in the ratio 5 : 3. When 6 litres of the mixture
is drawn off and then replaced with Y, the ratio
of X and Y becomes 5 : 7. How many litres of
liquid X was contained in the beaker initially?
(SSC CHSL 2021)
   X  Y  

 Y X Y 
 X
A) 18.25 B) 11.25 C) 22.5 D) 15.5 76.
72. A jar contains a mixture of two liquids A and B in
the ratio 3:1.When 24 litres of the mixture is taken
out and 9 litresof liquid B is poured into the jar,
the ratio becomes 3 :4. How many litres of liquid
B was contained in the jar?
A,B 

B
       B

A) 27ltr B) 36ltr C) 9ltr D) 18ltr
73. The ratio of milk and water in a vessel is 13:11. If
48ltr of mixture is taken out and 81 ltr water is
added then ratio of milk and water becomes 7:8.
Find quantity of milk in new mixture.
       

  

A) 273ltr B) 321ltr
C) 295ltr D) 299ltr
74. A barrel contains a mixture of wine and water in
the ratio 3 : 1. How much fraction of the mixture
must be drawn off and substituted by water so
that the ratio of wine and water in the resultant
mixture in the barrel becoms 1 : 1?
    
79. In three different vessels A, B and C, a syrup
 
      
  (SSC EXAM)
1 1 3 2
A) B) C) D)
4 3 4 3
75. A mixture contains 80% acid and rest water. Part
of the mixture that should be removed and
replaced by same amount of water to make the
ratio of acid and water 4 : 3 is

   

(SSC CGL MAINS)
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A)
1
rd
3
B) 3 rd C) rd
2 2
D) th
3 7 3 7
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 2021)
 



A) 2/7 B) 1/7 C) 1/5 D) 2/5
77. In 50 litre of water & milk mixture, water is 20%,
A milkman gives 10 L of this mixture to a cus-
tomer & then adds upto 10 L of pure water in
remaining, % of water in final mixture?

  



A) 45% B) 36% C) 24% D) 30%
78. A container contains mixture of milk and water in
which milk is 80%. 75% of mixture is taken out
and 10 L water is added, now the con-centration
of milk in the mixture is 60%. Find the quantity of
milk initially.

      


A) 102 B) 98 C) 95 D) 96
and water are mixed in the ratio 2 :3, 3 : 5 and 5
: 7 respectively. 15 litres of mixture taken from
A, 16 litres of mixture taken from B and x litres
of mixture taken from C are mixed in a new vessel
to have the ratio of syrup and water as 2 : 3 then
x= (TS SI PRELIMS 2022)
A, B C  
        
 A    B 
C x 
     
 x =
A) 24 B) 20 C) 18 D) 17
80. A vessel contains 240 litres of mixture containing
milk and water in the ratio of 5 : x, respectively.
48 litres of mixture is taken out from this vessel
 and put into another vessel P. When 12 litres of
water is added in vessel P then ratio of milk to
water is found to be 2 : 1, respectively. Find the
value of x.

5 : xP
  P  

x
A) 1 B) 5 C) 3 D) 2
81. In a mixture of 180 litres, the ratio of the juice to
water is 4 : 3. If ‘2X’ litres of mixture is taken out
and replaced with ‘3X’ litres of water, the ratio of
the juice to water becomes 2 : 3. Find the value of
X.

2X3X 
   
X
A) 60 B) 45 C) 36 D) 20
82. A vessel contains 216 litres mixture of milk and
water mixed in the ratio 2 : 1 respectively 2x liters
mixture is taken out of the vessel and replace with
3x – 4 litres water so that milk to water in the
vessel become 4 : 3. Find difference between the
final quantities of milk and water in the vessel.

2x
3x – 4
  
      

A) 32 B) 30 C) 20 D) 22
83. A vessel contains a mixture of 240L of milk and
30L of water. Then ‘x’ L of mixture is taken out
and 30L of milk and 35L of water are added to the
remaining mixture. If the difference between the
quantity of milk and water is 135 ltr, then find ‘x’?

 X 

     
X
A) 32 B) 65 C) 90 D) 64
84. From a solution that has milk & water in 5 : 3, x%
is removed & replaced by water concentration of
milk in resulting solution lies between 30% & 50%,
Which of following best describes value of ‘x’?

      
 
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

A) 25 < x < 50 B) 20 < x < 52
C) 20 < x < 48 D) 25 < x < 60
85. A vessel contains 20 litres of acid. 4 litres of acid
is taken out of the vessel and replaced by the
same quantity of water. Next 4 litres of the mixture
are with drawn, and again the vessel is filled with
the same quantity of water, find the ratio of acid
left in the vessel with the quantity of acid initially
in the vessel is (SSC EXAM)






A) 4 : 5 B) 4 : 25 C) 16 : 25 D) 1 : 5
86. There is 81 litres pure milk in a container. One-
third of milk is replaced by water in the container.
Again one-third of mixture is extracted and equal
amount of water is added. What is the ratio of
milk to water in the new mixture? (SSC EXAM)
  



 

A) 1 : 2 B) 1 : 1 C) 2 : 1 D) 4 : 5
87. A container contains 60 kg of milk. From this
container 6 kg of milk was taken out and replaced
by water. This process was repeated further two
times. The amount of milk left in the container is
(SSC EXAM)
       

     
 

A) 34. 24 kg B) 39.64 kg
C) 43.74 kg D) 47.6 kg
88. A drum contains 80 litres of ethanol. 20 litres of
this liquid is removed and replaced with water.
20 litres of this mixture is again removed and
replaced with water. How much water (in litres)
 is present in this drum now? (SSC CGL MAINS) 92.




A) 45 B) 40 C) 35 D) 44
89. A drum contains 165litres of ethanol. 44litresof
this liquid is removed and replaced with water.
44litres of this mixture is again removed and
replaced with water. How much water (in litres)
is present in this drum now? (MAINS 2017)




A) 80.55 B) 88.73
C) 76.26 D) 71.66
90. A container is filled with pure alcohol. 12 liter al-
cohol are withdrawn from the container and re-
placed with equal amount of water. 12 liters of
mixture is withdrawn again and replaced with equal
amount of water. The resultant mixture in the con-
tainer contains 21.6L of alcohol less than it had
initially find the capacity of container.
 
  
      
     


A) 72 liter B) 60 liter
C) 80 liter D) 84 liter
91. A jar is filled with milk. A person replaces 20% 94.
of milk with water. He repeats the same process
4 times and as a result there is 1024ml of milk
left in the jar. The remaining part of jar is filled
with water. The initial quantity of milk in the jar
was?
 

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


A) 2.5L B) 2.4L C) 3L D) 3.5L
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A Jar was full of milk. A person used to draw out
2
26 % of the milk from the jar and replaced it
3
with salt solution. He has repeated the same
process 3 times and thus there was only 3L 993ml
of milk left in the jar, the rest part of a jar was
filled with salt solution. The initial amount of milk
in the Jar was?
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



A) 6.750L B) 12.250L
C) 10.125L D) 8.750L
93. A vessel is full of 80L milk. If 10L milk is taken
out and replaced by same amount of water and
further 16L mixture is taken out and replaced by
same amount of water and again further 8L mixture
is taken out and replaced by same amount of water
again further20L mixture is taken out replaced
by same amount of water then at the end of 4th
process the amount of water in the mixture?
      






A) 37.8L B) 52.4L
C) 42.2L D) 27.6L
A jar contains a mixture of 175 ml water and
700 ml alcohol. Rohit takes out 10% of the
mixture and substitutes it by water of the same
amount. The process is repeated once again. The
percentage of water in the mixture is now? (CAT
2018)





A) 35.2 B) 30.3 C) 40.5 D) 25.4
95. The ratio of milk to water in a 100 litres mixture
 is 2 : 3. 10 litres of this mixture is withdrawn and
replaced with milk. This process is repeated 2
more times. What is the percentage of milk in final
mixture?





A) 56.26 percent B) 58.21 percent
C) 51.24 percent D) 54.27 percent
96. There is a vessel holding 40L of milk. 4L of milk
is initially taken out from the vessel and 5L of water
is poured in. After this 5L of the mixture from this
vessel is replaced with 6L of water and finally 6L
of mixture from the vessel is replaced with 7L of
water. How much of the milk (in ltr) in there in the
vessel now?
  




 100. A vessel contains a mixture of O2 and N2. The
A) 22.42 B) 27 .09 C) 24.72 D) 29.42
97. 105L of a mixture contains milk and water in the
ratio 3:4. 25L of mixture is taken out & 15L of
water is added in current mixture then 5L of the
current mixture is taken out & 10 L of water is
added in the current mixture then again 24L of
the current mixture is taken out and 32 litre water
is added in the current mixture. Then what is the
current ratio of milk and water in the mixture?
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




A) 4 : 9 B) 17 : 35 C) 8 : 27 D) 27 : 36 101. A 18 litre cylinder contains a mixture of oxygen
98. From a container of wine, a thief has stolen 36 lit
of wine and replaced it with same quantity of
water. He again, repeated the same process. Thus
in 3 attempts,ratio of wine and water becomes
125 : 218. Initial amount of wine.
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


  

A) 136 B) 126 C) 90 D) 72
99. From a container of vegetable oil 13L of
vegetable oil is taken out and replaced by another
type of vegetable oil. This process is repeated 3
times more. Find the initial amount of vegetable
oil in the container if at the end the ratio of
vegetable oil and another type of vegetable oil
becomes 2401:1695.

 

     

 

A) 91L B) 65L C) 104L D) 84.5L
quantity of O2 is 36% of total mixture. Some
quantity of mixture taken out from it and replaced
by N2. This process is repeated once more.
Now the quantity of O2 is 16% of total mixture.
If total quantity of mixture was 18 litres then,find
the quantity of mixture which is taken out?
O2, N2O2 

N2
 
O2 
     

A) 12L B) 4.5L C) 9L D) 6L
and nitrogen. In which oxygen is 54% of the mix-
ture. Some litres of the mixture is taken out and
replaced by nitrogen and this process is repeated
two more time. At the end oxygen remained 16%
of the mixture, find the quantity of mixture taken
out at a time.


  
  



A) 12.5 ltr B) 10 ltr C) 15 ltr D) 6 ltr
102. A vessel contains a 32litre solution of acid and
water in which the ratio of acid and water is 5:3.
If 12litres of the solution are taken out and 7
1  
2  
litres of water are added to it, then what is the
ratio of acid and water in the resulting solution?



(SSC CGL MAINS)
A) 4 : 7 B) 8 : 11 C) 4 : 9 D) 5 : 6
103. A vessel contains 64L of mixture of milk and
water in the ratio 7 :3 respectively. 8L of mixture
is replaced by 12L milk. What is the ratio of milk
and water in the resulting mixture? (Bank PO)
  


A) 64:21 B) 35:22 C) 64 : 23D) 65 : 21
104. A container contains 92.3L of pure milk. 20% of
the milk (sol) is taken out and replaced with water.
This process is repeated ‘n’ number of times. Find
the min value of ‘n’ for which the milk
concentration becomes less than 45.9%?
 

 n 
     
n
A) 6 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5
105. A vessel contains 12 L vodka & another contains
4L whisky. 3L is removed from each of the ves-
sels transferred into other. The same operation is
repeated once more. What is final ratio of vodka
to whisky in two vessels.
Vodka
Whisky

  Vodka  Whisky 
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A) 1 : 3, 3 : 1 B) 3 : 1, 1 : 3
C) 3 : 1, 3 : 1 D) 2 : 3, 1 : 2
106. There are two containers of equal volumes in
which alcohol & water are in 1 : 2 & 1 : 3 resp.
Half volume of first container poured into second.
And then exactly half the volume of mixture form
second contains poured into first contains find ra-
tio of alcohol & water in first container now
  

   

A) 3 : 7 B) 5 : 4 C) 5 : 4 D) 2 : 3
107. A, B & C have water, milk & acid in same quan-
tity. 10% of A is taken out & put in B then
10% of B into C then 10% C into A. At the end,
fraction of milk in A is?
A, B  C     
AB
    B    C 
CA
A 
9 1 1 10
A) B) C) D)
10 11 121 1011
108. A milk vendor generally sells 3 Grades of milk.
Grade I is pure milk with no water mixed in it,
Grade II is a mixture of milk and water in the ratio
3:2 and Grade III is a mixture of milk and water in
the ratio 2:3. On a particular day he has x liters of
Grade I and 3 litres of Grade III milk and he got
an order to supply 7 litres of Grade II milk. The
minimum value of x (in litres) required to prepare
7 lts of Grade II milk by mixing Grade I milk, Grade
III milk and water, is:
I
  II

III
     x 
IIII 
 II     (order)
IIII
II
x 
21
A) 3 B)
5
C) 2 D) 5