SOLUTION: The owner of a health-food store sells dried apples for $1.30 per quarter-pound, and dried apricots for $1.80 per quarter-pound. How many pounds of each must he mix
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Question 1187379: The owner of a health-food store sells dried apples for $1.30 per quarter-pound, and dried apricots for $1.80 per quarter-pound. How many pounds of each must he mix together to get 30 lb of a mixture that sells for $1.65 per quarter-pound?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Dried Apple, $5.2 per pound
Dried Apricots, $7.2 per pound
The mixture target, $6.6 per pound
The question:
How many pounds of each for 30 pounds to sell at $6.6 per POUND?
If A pounds of the apricot, then 30-A pounds of the apple
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