Knowee
Questions
Features
Study Tools

A dishonest milk man professes to sell milk at some cost price. But he mixes it with water and thereby gains 40%. What is the percentage of water in the mixture?8%28(4/7)%40%40 (4/7)%None

Question

A dishonest milk man professes to sell milk at some cost price. But he mixes it with water and thereby gains 40%. What is the percentage of water in the mixture?8%28(4/7)%40%40 (4/7)%None

🧐 Not the exact question you are looking for?Go ask a question

Solution 1

The milkman gains 40% by mixing water in the milk. This means that 60% of the cost price is the cost of milk and the remaining 40% is his profit.

Since he gets this profit by adding water, we can say that the water constitutes 40% of the mixture.

So, the percentage of water in the mixture is 40%.

Solution 2

The milkman gains 40% profit by mixing water in the milk. This means that 60% of the mixture is milk (since 100% - 40% = 60%). Therefore, the percentage of water in the mixture is 40%.

Similar Questions

A dishonest milkman professes to sell his milk at cost price but he mixes it with water and thereby gains 25%. The percentage of water in the mixture is?

When one litre of water is added to a mixture of milk and water, the new mixture contains 25% of milk. When one litre of milk is added to the new mixture, then the resulting mixture contains 40% milk. What is the percentage of milk in the original mixture?

A milk vendor has 2 cans of milk. The first contains 35% water and the rest milk. The second contains 65% water. How much milk should he mix from each of the container so as to get 64 liter of milk. Such that the ratio of water to milk is 3:7?

7 litres mixture of milk and water contains 30% water. 3.5 litres of milk is added to this mixture. What is the percentage of water in the new mixture?Options :20101518

A shopkeeper has 80 litres of milk. He makes a profit of 25% by selling 1 litre of milk at Rs.15. How much water should he mix in the milk so as to increase his profit to 30% if he plans to sell the milk-water mixture at Rs. 15 per litre??

1/3

Upgrade your grade with Knowee

Get personalized homework help. Review tough concepts in more detail, or go deeper into your topic by exploring other relevant questions.