SOLUTION: The manager of a specialty food store combined almonds that cost $6.60 per pound with walnuts that cost $5.60 per pound. How many pounds of each were used to make a 100-pound mixt
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Question 1196969: The manager of a specialty food store combined almonds that cost $6.60 per pound with walnuts that cost $5.60 per pound. How many pounds of each were used to make a 100-pound mixture that costs $6.03 per pound?
Almonds_______LB
Wallunts_____ LB
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Step 1. Let be the number of pounds of almonds.
Step 1. Let be the number of pounds of almonds.
Step 2. Let be the number of pounds of walnuts since we have a 100-pound mixture.
Step 3. Let be the dollar value of almonds.
Step 4. Let be the dollar value of walnuts.
Step 5. Let for a one-hundred pound mixture.
Step 6. Solve the equation
-> the number of pounds of almonds
-> the number of pounds of walnuts
answer:
Almonds_ _LB
Wallunts_ _ LB
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