SOLUTION: The vendor of a coffee cart mixes coffee beans that cost $8 per pound with coffee beans that cost $6 per pound. How many pounds of each should be used to make a 50-pound blend that
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Question 768332: The vendor of a coffee cart mixes coffee beans that cost $8 per pound with coffee beans that cost $6 per pound. How many pounds of each should be used to make a 50-pound blend that sells for $6.71 per pound?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Mix v pounds of coffee at H dollars per pound with u pounds of coffee at L dollars per pound, to have M pounds at T dollars per pound.
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Solve this system for the unknown variables of u and v.
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