document.write( "Question 1033186: Sally has two bags of nuts; one with seventy-nine percent peanuts, and the other with twenty-seven percent peanuts. To make a six lb bag of fifty-eight percent peanuts, how much of each should Sally use? \n" ); document.write( "

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0.70x+0.27(6-x) = 0.58(6)
\n" ); document.write( "0.70x+1.62-0.27x = 3.48
\n" ); document.write( "0.43x = 1.86
\n" ); document.write( "x = 4.33
\n" ); document.write( "You need 4.33 lbs of 70% and 6-4.33= 1.67 lbs of the 27%
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