Replacement of solution

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If a container has 'a' liters of liquid A and if 'b' liters of solution is withdrawn and is replaced with an equal volume of another liquid B and the operation is repeated for 'n' times, then after nth operation,

The final quantity of Liquid A in the container = $$\left(\ \frac{\ a-b}{a}\right)^{^n}\times\ a$$

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Question 1

A contains 100 litres of pure milk while B contains 200 litres of water. 40 litres is removed from A and inserted into B and 40 litres of the resulting solution is removed from B and inserted into A. This process is repeated indefinitely. What is final% of milk in A?

Question 2

The ratio of milk and water in a solution is 5:3. The volume of the solution was increased by 25% by adding water. From the resulting solution, 100 litres were removed and replaced by water. The final ratio of milk to water is 3:7. What is the initial volume of the solution?

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