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Partnership · UPSC CDS/OTA · Question 42 of 81

Partnership: Two buckets of equal capacity are full of a mixture of milk and water. In the first, the ratio of milk to water is 1:7 and in the second it is 3:8. Now both the mixtures are mixed in a bigger container. What is the resulting ratio of milk to water?

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Partnership
Subject
Mathematics
Difficulty
Medium
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45-60 sec

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Two buckets of equal capacity are full of a mixture of milk and water. In the first, the ratio of milk to water is 1:7 and in the second it is 3:8. Now both the mixtures are mixed in a bigger container. What is the resulting ratio of milk to water?

TopicPartnership
Question Typemultiple choice
DifficultyMedium
Marking+1 / −0.33
Test Duration30 min

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