SOLUTION: Sarah mixed craisins and chocolate chips together for a snack.
-Sarah bought 8 lbs of craisins for a total of $6.80.
-The cost per pound of chocolate chips is 30% more than th
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Question 934290: Sarah mixed craisins and chocolate chips together for a snack.
-Sarah bought 8 lbs of craisins for a total of $6.80.
-The cost per pound of chocolate chips is 30% more than the cost per pound of craisins.
-Sarah bought enough chocolate chips that, when she mixed them with the craisins, the mixture had a value of $0.99 per pound.
Approximately what percent of the mixture, by weight, was chocolate chips?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is a mixture problem in which you know the quantity of one of the ingredients but not the other ingredient.
The price for craisins, .
The price for chocolate chips, .
Let c be the quantity of chocolate chips; the percent in the mixture can be computed later.
Account for price.
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The numerator is the COST of the mixture and the denominator is the POUNDS of the mixture; and c is how many POUNDS of chocolate chips. Now you can find the percentage.
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