Two drums, Drum 1 and drum 2 contain mixture of sugar and rice in ratio 3:5 and 5:3. Then both the drums are mixed to get a mixture that now has 34 kg sugar and 30 kg rice. Find quantity of mixture mixed from drum 1? please elaborate the solution.

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Harshvardhan Sharma · Answer

Drum 2-total 40 kg 
25kg sugar
and 15 kg rice

Aryaman Sahu · Answer

24kg is the correct answer

Aditya Narayan · Answer

USe Alligation - 
3/8 on one side, 5/8 on other and in the middle 30/(30+34) i.e. 17/32. Using this you will be able to do this

Aditya Rane · Answer

Quantity of mixture in drum 1 be q1. lly q2 for drum 2.
Sugar:
3/8 of q1 + 5/8 of q2=34
Rice:
5/8 of q1 + 3/8 of q2=30
Solve and get q1

Sushmita · Answer

Please elaborate the solution

Avinash Singh · Answer

24 kgs from Drum 1 and 40 kgs from drum 2 is the right ans

vikranth yerrawar · Answer

3

Ankush Mathur · Answer

20

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