SOLUTION: A grocer mixes peanuts that cost $1.43 per pound and walnuts that cost $2.63 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture that costs $2.15 per pound. How much of each kind of nut is p

SOLUTION: A grocer mixes peanuts that cost $1.43 per pound and walnuts that cost $2.63 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture that costs $2.15 per pound. How much of each kind of nut is p

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Question 988469: A grocer mixes peanuts that cost $1.43 per pound and walnuts that cost $2.63 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture that costs $2.15 per pound. How much of each kind of nut is put into the mixture?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The problem works just like this:
two-part mixture using one variable only

Your example uses price instead of percent. Still both work as concentrations.
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