Alligation
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title:
Alligation
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Alligation is an old and practical method of solving arithmetic problems related to mixtures of ingredients. There are two types of alligation: alligation medial, used to find the quantity of a mixture given the quantities of its ingredients, and alligation alternate, used to find the amount of each ingredient needed to make a mixture of a given quantity. Alligation medial is merely a matter of finding a weighted mean. Alligation alternate is more complicated and involves organizing the ingredie
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Method of solving arithmetic problems involving mixtures
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligation
date created:
2006-01-11T03:48:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T03:04:35Z
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