A. 10 litres
B. 15 litres
C. 66 2/3 litres
D. 20 litres
Explanation:
Let the capacity of the bucket be x liters
(80% of x) – (200/3% of x) = 2
=> (80/100 × x) – (200/300 × x) = 2
=> 4x/5 – 2x/3 = 2
=> (12x -10x) = 30
=> 2x = 30
=> X = 15 Litres
Related Mcqs:
- 12 buckets of water fill a tank when the capacity of each bucket is 13.5 litres. How many buckets will be needed to fill the same tank, if the capacity of each bucket is 9 litres?
A. 14
B. 15
C. 16
D. 18 - A vessel of capacity 90 litres is fully filled with pure milk. Nine litres of milk is removed from the vessel and replaced with water. Nine litres of the solution thus formed is removed and replaced with water. Find the quantity of pure milk in the final milk solution?
A. 72
B. 72.9
C. 73.8
D. 74.7
E. None of these - A mixture of 70 litres of milk and water contains 10% water. How many litres of water should be added to the mixture so that the mixture contains 12 1/2% water?
A. 2
B. 8
C. 4
D. 5
E. None of these - In a can, there is a mixture of milk and water in the ratio 4 : 5. If it is filled with an additional 8 litres of milk the can would be full and ratio of milk and water would become 6 : 5. Find the capacity of the can?
A. 40
B. 44
C. 48
D. 52 - All the water in container A which was filled to its brim was poured into two containers B and C. The quantity of water in container B was 62.5% less than the capacity of container A. If 148 liters was now transferred from C to B, then both the containers would have equal quantities of water. What was the initial quantity of water in container A?
A. 648
B. 888
C. 928
D. 1184 - 8 litres are drawn from a cask full of wine and is then filled with water. This operation is performed three more times. The ratio of the quantity of wine now left in cask to that of water is 16 : 65. How much wine did the cask hold originally?
A. 18 litres
B. 24 litres
C. 32 litres
D. 42 litres - Two vessels P and Q contain 62.5% and 87.5% of alcohol respectively. If 2 litres from vessel P is mixed with 4 litres from vessel Q, the ratio of alcohol and water in the resulting mixture is_______?
A. 16 : 5
B. 14 : 5
C. 16 : 7
D. 19 : 5
E. None of these - How much water must be added to a bucket which contains 40 liters of milk at the cost price of Rs.3.50 per liter so that the cost of milk reduces to Rs.2 per liter?
A. 25 liters
B. 28 litres
C. 30 liters
D. 35 liters - Three pipes of same capacity can fill a tank in 8 hours. If there are only two pipes of same capacity, the tank can be filled in___________?
A. 17 hours
B. 12 hours
C. 16 hours
D. 24 hours - A mixture of 70 liters of wine and water contains 10% water. How much water must be added to make water 12 ½% of the total mixture?
A. 12 liters
B. 10 liters
C. 4 liters
D. 2 liters
