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A mixture contains lemon juice and sugar syrup in equal proportion. If a new mixture is created by adding this mixture and sugar syrup in the ratio 1:31: 3, then the ratio of lemon juice and sugar syrup in the new mixture is

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✅ Correct Option: 4

We have a mixture problem with two stages:

Original mixture: Lemon juice and sugar syrup in equal proportion (1:1)

New mixture: Original mixture and additional sugar syrup in ratio 1:3

We need to find the final ratio of lemon juice to sugar syrup.


Since the original mixture has lemon juice and sugar syrup in equal proportion, we can write:

Lemon juice : Sugar syrup = 1 : 1

In mixture problems, we can assume any convenient value that maintains the given ratio. Let's assume:

Lemon juice = 10 liters

Sugar syrup = 10 liters

Total original mixture = 20 liters


The problem states: "adding this mixture and sugar syrup in the ratio 1:3"

This means:

1 part of the original mixture (20 liters)

3 parts of additional sugar syrup

Since 1 part = 20 liters, then:

3 parts = 3 × 20 = 60 liters of additional sugar syrup


Lemon juice in final mixture:

Only comes from the original mixture = 10 liters

Sugar syrup in final mixture:

From original mixture = 10 liters

Additional sugar syrup = 60 liters

Total sugar syrup = 10 + 60 = 70 liters


Final ratio = Lemon juice : Sugar syrup = 10 : 70

Simplifying: 10 : 70 = 1 : 7


The ratio of lemon juice and sugar syrup in the new mixture is 1 : 7.

In mixture problems, we always track each component separately through all the mixing stages. The component that's not being added remains constant.

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