Good at math, but suck at SAT Math (the hard questions)?

spiralcloud
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:12:44 +0000

Here’s one of the last problems I got wrong (it’s classified as “hard”):
In a mixture of peanuts and cashews, the ratio by weight of peanuts to cashews is 5 to 2. How many pounds of cashews will there by in four pounds of the mixture?

(it was a grid-in question)