A jar contains a mixture of 175 ml water and 700 ml alcohol. Gopal 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
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Explanatory Answer
Given that a jar contains a mixture of 175 ml water and 700 ml alcohol.
It is given that 10% of the mixture is removed and it is substituted by water of the same amount
and the process is repeated once again
Now we have to find the percentage of water in the mixture.
Since the mixture is removed and substituted with water, we can deal with alcohol and the second
step we can find how much amount of alcohol is retained and not about how much amount of
alcohol is removed
As 10% of alcohol is removed, 90% of alcohol is retained
So alcohol remaining = 700 × 90% × 90%
⟹ 700 × 0.9 × 0.9 = 567
We totally have 875 ml overall mixture and of this 567 ml is alcohol.
Remaining 875 – 567 = 308 is the amount of water.
We have to find the percentage of water in the mixture i.e. 308/875
Approximately 308 is 30% of 1000 so by this we know that 308 is more than 30%
Hence 35.2% is the percentage of water in the given mixture.
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