SOLUTION: Ordinary salted peanuts cost $6 per lb. Premium (i.e. without peanuts) mixed nuts cost $18 per lb. Suppose a 24 oz. mixture of peanuts and premium mixed nuts costs $16.50. How much

Question 890734: Ordinary salted peanuts cost $6 per lb. Premium (i.e. without peanuts) mixed nuts cost $18 per lb. Suppose a 24 oz. mixture of peanuts and premium mixed nuts costs $16.50. How much of the mixture is made up of peanuts?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
u of the cheap nuts, v of the expensive nuts

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Divide b.s. by 6;

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