Pistachio Gravimetric Analysis
Have you ever wondered whether buying pistachios with shells or without shells offers the better value? For example here, there are $1360g$ of pistachios with shells offered for $\$16$, or $680g$ without shells for $\$18$. This article presents an experiment in which a sample from a bag of pistachios with shells was processed nut by nut, with the mass of each kernel and shell measured separately to determine not only the mass distribution of the combined sample but the ratio of nut to shell as well.
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