Question

A company mixes pecans, cashews, peanuts, and walnuts to make a batch of mixed nuts.

About 15.4% of the mixed nuts in a batch are pecans.
If a batch contains 77 pounds of pecans, how many pounds of mixed nuts are in a batch altogether?

Answer 1

Explanation:

15.4% of the nuts are pecans.

0.154x = 77

x = 500

There are 500 pounds of mixed nuts in the batch.