SOLUTION: Kevin's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Kevin $4.40 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.95 per pound. This month's blend

Question 1082253: Kevin's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Kevin
$4.40 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.95 per pound. This month's blend used four times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $1071.60. How many pounds of type A coffee were used?
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Solve for A then use either equation to solve for B.

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