SOLUTION: Ravi's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Ravi $5.95 per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.40 per pound. This month's b

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Question 923511: Ravi's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Ravi
$5.95
per pound, and type B coffee costs
$4.40
per pound. This month's blend used three times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of
$421.30
. How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
No poundage quantities of the coffees A and B nor the mixture is given.

, p is price for the mixture, but you also KNOW THE COST of the mixture...


You also are given a ratio of type B to type A.


Type A is the more expensive coffee, assigned quantity of pounds v.


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To the nearest whole value, that is 58 pounds of type A coffee.


Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Ravi's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Ravi
$5.95
per pound, and type B coffee costs
$4.40
per pound. This month's blend used three times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of
$421.30
. How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

Amount of Type A: lbs
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