SOLUTION: A health-food store sells trail mix made with granola and dried fruit. Th e store buys granola at $1.00/lb and dried fruit at $2.00/lb, and it sells these items at a 25% markup

Question 898517: A health-food store sells trail mix made with granola and dried fruit. Th e store
buys granola at $1.00/lb and dried fruit at $2.00/lb, and it sells these items at a
25% markup. If the trail mix sells for $1.75/lb, what is the recipe for trail mix?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Start with the marked-up price to determine the mixture original price, and then look for the quantities of the dried fruit and granola.

, using T for the mixture price BEFORE mark-up.

dollars per pound, again this is BEFORE mark-up.

Let u= pounds of granola
Let v = pounds of dried fruit

, and you could just as well say M = 1 pound or 100 pounds, whatever is convenient, BECAUSE NO INDICATION OF HOW MUCH TRAIL MIX WAS MADE! M is the pounds of the mixture. All you can do is find the ratio of v and u. You decide how to go from here.
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