SOLUTION: You decide to make 10 lb of a peanut-and raisin mixture to sell at the class snack sale. You can buy peanuts for $2. 50 per pound and raisins for $1. 75 per pound. If you want to

Question 958371: You decide to make 10 lb of a peanut-and raisin mixture to sell at the class snack sale. You can buy peanuts for $2. 50 per pound and raisins for $1. 75 per pound. If you want to sell the mixture for $2 per pound, how many pounds of peanuts and how many pounds of raisin should you use?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The cost of the mixture and the cost of the separate ingredients to be equal, this cost is .

Let p be pounds of peanuts and then 10-p be pounds of raisins.

, multiplied members by 4,

, and from that,
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