While I was talking to a chemist one day, he set me
this interesting problem.
‘I decided to mix some wine spirits and water. I had two
bottles containing 10 ounces of each. I poured just a quarter of an ounce of
spirits into the water and shook them up. You can see clearly that the mixture
was forty to one. Now I thought that I should have the same quantity of fluid
in both the bottles, and so I poured back a quarter of an ounce of the mixture
into the bottle containing spirits.
Can you tell what proportion of spirits to water did the
spirits of wine bottle then contain?
Answer: The
Mixture of spirits of wine and water is in the proportion of 40 to 1, just as
in the other bottle it was in the proportion of 1 to 40.
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