SOLUTION: The manager of a specialty food store combined almond nuts that cost P450 per kilo with walnuts that costs P250 per kilo. How many kilos of each were used to make 100 kilos of mixt

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Question 1011884: The manager of a specialty food store combined almond nuts that cost P450 per kilo with walnuts that costs P250 per kilo. How many kilos of each were used to make 100 kilos of mixture costing P320 per kilo?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) About Me  (Show Source):
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The problem can be solved with the method demonstrated in this video example:
Using just one variable for two-part mix problem

Percents and price are both types of concentration. Think of the different nuts and their prices as the nuts contain some quantity of money per pound. This is much like percents being counting of numbers of parts "per hundred".