SOLUTION: A coffee merchant wants to make 45 lb of a blend of coffee to sell for $5.80 per pound. The blend is made by using a $7 grade and a $5 grade of coffee. How many pounds of each grad
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Question 1018545: A coffee merchant wants to make 45 lb of a blend of coffee to sell for $5.80 per pound. The blend is made by using a $7 grade and a $5 grade of coffee. How many pounds of each grade of coffee should be used?
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A coffee merchant wants to make 45 lb of a blend of coffee to sell for $5.80 per pound. The blend is made by using a $7 grade and a $5 grade of coffee. How many pounds of each grade of coffee should be used?
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It is a typical word problem on mixtures.
You will find the similar problem solved in the lesson
Word problems on mixtures for dry substances like coffee beans, nuts, cashew and peanuts in this site.
Read it attentively and then solve your problem by applying the same logic and substituting your data.
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