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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?

A.
5

B.
6

C.
9

D.
18

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WindsorLynne
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.

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