SOLUTION: A candy store owner has chocolate candies worth $2.50 per pound and sour candies worth $0.90 per pound. How much of each kind of candies should she combine to get 80 lb of mixed ca

SOLUTION: A candy store owner has chocolate candies worth $2.50 per pound and sour candies worth $0.90 per pound. How much of each kind of candies should she combine to get 80 lb of mixed ca

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Question 838045: A candy store owner has chocolate candies worth $2.50 per pound and sour candies worth $0.90 per pound. How much of each kind of candies should she combine to get 80 lb of mixed candies worth $1.80 per pound?
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Mixture: Two-Part, price or cost, both material amounts unknown
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