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| Mixture | |||||||||
| Mixture is a solution containing two or more products which bears a fixed proportion to each other, by quantity | |||||||||
| Alligation | |||||||||
| Alligation literally means linking. It is the rule that enables us to find the ratio in which two or more ingredients at the given price must be mixed to produce a mixture of a desired price. | |||||||||
| Mean price | |||||||||
| The cost price of unit quantity of the mixture is called the mean price. | |||||||||
| Rule of alligation | |||||||||
| When two or more quantities of different values are mixed together to produce a mixture of a mean value, the ratio of their amounts are inversely proportional to the differences of their values from the mean value. Thus, | |||||||||
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