document.write( "Question 945659: A store sells cashews for $5.30 per pound and peanuts for $1.60 per pound. The manager decides to mix 10 pounds of peanuts with some cashews and sell the mixture for $3.30 per pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the peanuts so that the mixture will produce the same revenue as would selling the nuts separately?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #576808 by josgarithmetic(39620)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! Very routine price mixture problem. Your examples is one of the simple two-parts kind, and these all work the same. The concentration is \"dollars per pound\".\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Mixture: one material quantity unknown \n" ); document.write( "http://www.algebra.com/my/Two-Part-Mixture-with-one-material-quantity-unknown.lesson?content_action=show_dev \n" ); document.write( " |