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Question 566845: How do you set up this problem: A grocer mixes peanuts that cost $2.69 per pound and walnuts that cost $4.29 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture that costs $3.49 per pound. How much of each kind of nut is put into the mixture?
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Let represent the number of pounds of expensive nuts. Then has to represent the number of pounds of cheap nuts. The total value of the expensive nuts is , the total value of the cheap nuts is , and the total value of the mixture is , so:



Solve for , then calculate

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