2025 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 2

The following problem is from both the 2025 AMC 10A #2 and 2025 AMC 12A #2, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem

A box contains $10$ pounds of a nut mix that is $50$ percent peanuts, $20$ percent cashews, and $30$ percent almonds. A second nut mix containing $20$ percent peanuts, $40$ percent cashews, and $40$ percent almonds is added to the box resulting in a new nut mix that is $40$ percent peanuts. How many pounds of cashews are now in the box?

$\textbf{(A) } 3.5 \qquad\textbf{(B) } 4 \qquad\textbf{(C) } 4.5 \qquad\textbf{(D) } 5 \qquad\textbf{(E) } 6$

Solution 1

We are given $0.2(10) = 2$ pounds of cashews in the first box.

Denote the pounds of nuts in the second nut mix as $x.$

$5 + 0.2x = 0.4(10 + x)$ $0.2x = 1$ $x = 5$

Thus, we have 5 pounds of the second mix.

$0.4(5) + 2 = 2 + 2 = \boxed{\text{(B) }4}$

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Solution 2

Let the number of pounds of nuts in the second nut mix be $x$ . Therefore, we get the equation $0.5 \cdot 10 + 0.2 \cdot x = 0.4(x+10)$ . Solving it, we get $x=5$ . Therefore the amount of cashews in the two bags is $0.2 \cdot 10 + 0.4 \cdot 5 = 4$ , so out answer choice is $\boxed{\textbf{(B)} 4}$ .

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Solution 3

The percent of peanuts in the first mix is $10\%$ away from the total percentage of peanuts, and the percent of peanuts in the second mix is $20\%$ away from the total percentage. This means the first mix has twice as many nuts as the second mix, so the second mix has $5$ pounds. 0.20 \cdot 10 + 0.40 \cdot 5 = 4 pounds of cashews. So our answer is, $\boxed{\textbf{(B)}4}$

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