SOLUTION: An herbalist has 20oz of herbs costing $3 per ounce. How many ounces of herbs costing $2 per ounce should be mixed with these 20oz of herbs to produce a mixture costing $2.50 per o

Question 1009292: An herbalist has 20oz of herbs costing $3 per ounce. How many ounces of herbs costing $2 per ounce should be mixed with these 20oz of herbs to produce a mixture costing $2.50 per ounce
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can use logic without math on this one...
Since she wants a mixture costing exactly $2.50 per ounce, she would need the exact same amount of $3 stuff as $2 stuff, since $2.50 is the middle of $2 and $3.
The answer is simply 20 ounces of the $2 stuff.
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