SOLUTION: A company sells a container of mixed nuts that is 50% peanuts and the other container that is 80% peanuts. How many cups for each mixture would be needed to make 105 cups that is

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Question 1063464: A company sells a container of mixed nuts that is 50% peanuts and the other container that is 80% peanuts.
How many cups for each mixture would be needed to make 105 cups that is 60% peanuts?
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There is entire bunch of lessons covering various types of mixture problems
    - Mixture problems
    - More Mixture problems
    - Solving typical word problems on mixtures for solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for antifreeze solutions
    - Word problems on mixtures for dry substances like coffee beans, nuts, cashew and peanuts (*)
    - Word problems on mixtures for dry substances like candies, dried fruits
    - Word problems on mixtures for dry substances like soil and sand
    - Word problems on mixtures for alloys
    - Typical word problems on mixtures from the archive
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on word problems for mixtures
in this site.

Read them and become an expert in solution the mixture word problems.
Your prototype/sample is the Problem 3 of the lesson marked (*).

Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Mixture problems