SOLUTION: A farm owner makes his apple juice and cranberry juice how much would you charge if he makes his 8 L of apple juice selling for a 0.45 per liter with 10 L of cranberry juice sellin

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Question 989412: A farm owner makes his apple juice and cranberry juice how much would you charge if he makes his 8 L of apple juice selling for a 0.45 per liter with 10 L of cranberry juice selling for 1.08 per liter

I tried 8(0.45) + 10 (1.08) and got 14.40 and it was incorrect what did I do wrong and how do I correctly solve this problem?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This lesson may help, but uses two variables while, if you are clever, you could do the problem in one variable:

price for two part mixture

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