SOLUTION: The owner of cool beans coffee shop mixes french roast coffee worth $9.00 per with Kenyan coffee worth $7.50 per pound in order to get 10 pounds of a mixture worth $8.40 per pound.

Question 145097: The owner of cool beans coffee shop mixes french roast coffee worth $9.00 per with Kenyan coffee worth $7.50 per pound in order to get 10 pounds of a mixture worth $8.40 per pound. How much of each type of coffee was used?
number of pounds of french roast coffee_______
number of poundsof Kenyan coffee_____
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = pounds of french roast used
Let = pounds of Kenyan used

Substitute this value of into the other equation

The owner used pounds of French roast and
pounds of Kenyan coffee
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