Problema Solution
14kg of mixed nuts containing 75% peanuts were mixed with 11kg of peanuts. Peanuts are what percent of the new mixture?
Answer provided by our tutors
we want to solve for percent peanuts, so we need to calculate this ratio:
peanuts/total volume
peanuts in the 14kg of mixed nuts:
14 * 0.75
total weight of the mixture:
14 + 11 = 25kg
((14*0.75) + 11)/25 = 0.86
The new mixture is 86% peanuts