SOLUTION: A store mixes Alabama bluegrass worth $12 per pound and ryegrass worth $16 per pound.how much of each should be used to make a 384-pound mixture. How many pounds of the Alabama blu

Question 968031: A store mixes Alabama bluegrass worth $12 per pound and ryegrass worth $16 per pound.how much of each should be used to make a 384-pound mixture. How many pounds of the Alabama bluegrass should be in the mixture?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Price or cost for the mixture?

Let p be the target price in dollars per pound for the mixture;
let x be the pounds of the $12 per pound bluegrass;
and then 384-x is the pounds of the ryegrass.

, and you can solve for x in terms of p.
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