SOLUTION: The Nutty Professor sells cashews for $6.70 per pound and Brazil nuts for $4.10 per pound. How much of each type should be used to make a 36 pound mixture that sells for $5.40 per

SOLUTION: The Nutty Professor sells cashews for $6.70 per pound and Brazil nuts for $4.10 per pound. How much of each type should be used to make a 36 pound mixture that sells for $5.40 per

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Question 1001629: The Nutty Professor sells cashews for $6.70 per pound and Brazil nuts for $4.10 per pound. How much of each type should be used to make a 36 pound mixture that sells for $5.40 per pound?
Round answers to the nearest pound.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Same type, different example.

Using just one variable for a two-part mixture problem
Concentration is dollars per pound instead of Per Cents.

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You can answer this. Study the example.
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