Question

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?









A.
5







B.
6







C.
9







D.
18

Answer 1

Assuming that the ratios stay the same, the answer is going to be 6 because the total number of nuts drawn originally was 48, and 9 were cashews. To maintain this ratio when 32 nuts were drawn, the number of cashews will be 6.