SOLUTION: A candy store at the mall sells Pink Hearts for $4.50 per pound and Sugar Twists for $5.00 per pound. If they sell three times as many pounds of Sugar Twists as Pink Hearts, and ta

Question 836321: A candy store at the mall sells Pink Hearts for $4.50 per pound and Sugar Twists for $5.00 per pound. If they sell three times as many pounds of Sugar Twists as Pink Hearts, and take in $292.50, how many pounds of Sugar Twists did they sell?
Do not enter units.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This really a simple linear systems application.

h for pink Hearts
w for sugar tWists
, or

Accounting for revenue: ;
simply substitute for w:

the pounds of Sugar Twists.
This means 5 pounds of Pink Hearts.
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