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Numerical Ability
Alligation or Mixture
A cask full of milk,'E' liters is removed and water is mixed. This process is repeated and now the ratio in milk to water is 16:9. Then what is the amount of milk in liter.
E+9 9E 5E cant be determined
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- Ans is 5E...
EXPLANATION-------------
After 'n' operations ,the amount of pure liquid remaining is = [x { ( 1-E/x )^n } ]...where x is original amount of liquid and E is amount of liquid removed..This is standard formula in RS aggarwal...
Now ,in our case the operations is performed twice...
Let the original milk be x liters..
E liters removed twice n = 2,
milk remaining (M) = [ x { (1-E/x)^2 } ]....water is (W) = x - [x { (1-E/x)^2 } ]
M/W = 16/9 Take (1-E/x)^2 = z
now solving we get z = 16/25 that is (1 - E/x)^2 = (4/5)^2
1 - E/x = 4/5
x = 5E (Answer)
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- 5E
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suppose initially milk was X
now after process
milk=k(1-E/k)^2...........eq
water_remained=k-milk......eq
eq/eq=16/9
k=5E
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- i think cant be determined is ans.
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- can't be determine..
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