SOLUTION: A candy store sells chocolate-covered almonds for $6.50 a pound and chocolate-covered peanuts for $4.00 per pound. The manager decides to make a bridge mix that combines the almond
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Question 1073448: A candy store sells chocolate-covered almonds for $6.50 a pound and chocolate-covered peanuts for $4.00 per pound. The manager decides to make a bridge mix that combines the almonds with the peanuts. She wants the bridge mix to sell for $6.00 per pound, and there should be no loss in revenue from selling the bridge mix versus the almonds and peanuts alone. How many pounds of chocolate-covered almonds and chocolate-covered peanuts are required to create 50 pounds of this bridge mix?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Just for the cost of the mixture:
x, how many pounds chocolate covered almonds
50-x, how much peanuts
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ADDING JUST A LITTLE MORE DETAIL
The same assigning of variable x as done above.
Comparison of PRICE for the mixture and the two parts:
Cost for the mixture:
Total mixture quantity:
The PRICES must be equal.
Solve for x and evaluate 50-x.
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