SOLUTION: a grocer mixes together some cashews costing $8 per kilogram with some Brazil nuts costing $10 per kilogram. The grocer sold 12 kg of the mixture for $8.50 per kilogram. how many k
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Question 174702: a grocer mixes together some cashews costing $8 per kilogram with some Brazil nuts costing $10 per kilogram. The grocer sold 12 kg of the mixture for $8.50 per kilogram. how many kilograms of cashsews were in the mixture the grocer sold?
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let the amount of cashews and brazil nuts be ,c and b, respectively
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8c+10b=8.5(10)..eq 1
c+b=10..........eq 2
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rewrite eq 2 to c=10-b....and plug this value into eq 1
:
8(10-b)+10b=85
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80-8b+10b=85
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2b=5
:
kg's of brazil nuts
:
kg's of cashews
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