Answer:
The nuts weigth is 37/16 or 2.3125 pounds.
Explanation:
In order to solve this problem we first need to convert all the measurements to the same unit, in this case we will convert ounces to pounds, to do that we need to divide the value by 16, we have:
almonds = 9/16 pounds
We can now convert the weigh of pecans from a mixed fraction to a simple fraction, to do that we sum the integer part to the fraction, we have:
pecans = 1 + 1/8 = 8/8 + 1/8 = 9/8 pounds
We now sum all the weigths:
total weigth = 9/8 + 5/8 + 9/16
Applying LMC we have:
total weigth = (2*9 + 2*5 + 9)/16 = (18 + 10 + 9)/16 = 37/16 = 2.3125 pounds
The nuts weigth is 37/16 or 2.3125 pounds.