SOLUTION: Goran's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Goran $5.75 per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.45 per pound. This month's

Question 1162949: Goran's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Goran
$5.75
per pound, and type B coffee costs
$4.45
per pound. This month's blend used twice as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of
$556.70
. How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

Answer by ikleyn(53765) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let x be the amount of the type A coffee, in pounds (the value under the question).


Then amount of the type B coffee is 2x poubds, according to the condition.


The money equation is


    5.75*x + 4.45*(2x) = 556.70.


Simplify and solve


    x =  = 38 pounds coffee A.     ANSWER

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