SOLUTION: Boy and Girl sells mixtures of almonds and raisins. A kilogram of almonds and raisins cost $300 and $125, respectively. If the final cost of the mixture is $1,400 and the mixture c
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Question 997544: Boy and Girl sells mixtures of almonds and raisins. A kilogram of almonds and raisins cost $300 and $125, respectively. If the final cost of the mixture is $1,400 and the mixture contaion 7.5kg of the raisins, how many kilograms of almonds were mixed?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The cost per kilogram can be found or thought as .
On the other hand, you could just account for the cost of the mixture.
Think, .
y, the amount of the almonds (because you are given how much raisins).
Yes, you can manage the solution focused on price, but looking at accounting for cost seems
more straightforward here. The price can be found, since you know mass of y+7.5 mixture
will cost $1400; but the question asks for a material quantity and expects a given mixture COST.
Solve for y.
.
-----compute this.
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