A trail mix company keeps costs down by employing the peanuts:cashews:almonds ratio of 10:4:1 in each bag of up to 75 total nuts. What is the maximum percentage by which the company could decrease its number of peanuts per bag and still have peanuts constitute more than half the total amount of nuts?	Choose the correct choice from the following answers.
A) 40 %
B) 48 %
C) 49 %
D) 50 %
E) 58 %

Rationale: peanuts = 50 cashews = 20 almonds = 5 we want to remove as many peanuts as possible while still having peanuts represent more than half of the mixture . . . the number of cashews and almonds will stay the same though , so we have 20 + 5 = 25 of those non - peanuts in total . if we had 25 peanuts and 25 non - peanuts , then that would be 50 % exactly . we want more than 50 % though , so we need to add in 1 more peanut . this gives us . . . peanuts = 26 cashews = 20 almonds = 5 the question asked for the decrease in the number of peanuts as a percentage . we started with 50 peanuts and removed 24 = 24 / 50 = 48 % ; answer : b
Answer: B