SOLUTION: The modern Grocery has cashews that sell for $4.50 per pound and peanuts that sell for $2.50 per pound. How much of each must Albert, the Grocer, mix to get 80 pounds of a mixture
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Question 1027760: The modern Grocery has cashews that sell for $4.50 per pound and peanuts that sell for $2.50 per pound. How much of each must Albert, the Grocer, mix to get 80 pounds of a mixture that he can sell for $3.00 per pound.?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
be the number of pounds of the $4.50 per pound component. Then 
must be the number of pounds of the $2.50 per pound component. 
is the cost of the first component and )
is the cost of the second component. \ =\ 240)
is the total cost of the mixture. So:
\ =\ 240)
Solve for and then calculate
This works regardless of whether the grocer's name is Albert, or for that matter whether he or she is actually a grocer.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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