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Mathematics, 14.07.2021 23:00 Rogeartest4

30 POINTS! Delaney would like to make a 5 lb nut mixture that is 60% peanuts and 40% almonds. She has several pounds of peanuts and several pounds of a mixture that is 20% peanuts and 80% almonds. Let p represent the number of pounds of peanuts needed to make the new mixture, and let m represent the number of pounds of the 80% almond-20% peanut mixture. (a) What is the system that models this situation?
(b) Which of the following is a solution to the system: 2 lb peanuts and 3 lb mixture; 2.5 lb peanuts and 2.5 lb mixture; 4 lb peanuts and 1 lb mixture? Show your work.

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