SOLUTION: an owner of a gourmet food store wishes to mix cashews and peanuts to sell. The cashews cost $6/kg and the peanuts cost $3.50/kg. How many kilograms of cashews should be included w

Question 1107562: an owner of a gourmet food store wishes to mix cashews and peanuts to sell. The cashews cost $6/kg and the peanuts cost $3.50/kg. How many kilograms of cashews should be included with the peanuts to make 20 kg of the mix to sell for $5 /kg?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
c, cashews
p, peanuts

--------one equation in just one unknown, p

---------kg of peanuts

..............

You find c=12, or 12 kg of cashews.

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