A large bin of mixed nuts contains peanuts, cashews, almonds, and walnuts. Sheila scoops out a bowl full of nuts and counts how many of each type she has: 17 peanuts, 9 cashews, 12 almonds, and 10 walnuts.

Armando scoops out a bowl of 32 nuts. About how many should he expect to be cashews?

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A large bin of mixed nuts contains peanuts, cashews, almonds, and walnuts. Sheila scoops out a bowl full of nuts and counts how many of each type she has: 17 peanuts, 9 cashews, 12 almonds, and 10 walnuts. 


Armando scoops out a bowl of 32 nuts. About how many should he expect to be cashews?

perl · Answer

if we scoop out a bowl of 32 nuts, we expect the same proportion of cashews as before

perl · Answer

there were 9 cashews out of a total of  17 + 9 + 12 + 10 nuts in the first scoop. that is 9 / (48) fraction of cashews. 
now multiply 32 by this fraction

anonymous · Answer

ok soo its...

perl · Answer

9/48  is the fraction of cashews of any scoop, you can change it to percent even 18.75% if it makes it easier to visualize. so any scoop will have 18.75% of the nuts will be cashews.

perl · Answer

32 * 0.1875 = 6

anonymous · Answer

thank you so much i got completely confused on this one!