SOLUTION: The owner of a candy store mixes two types of candies she decides to create a 20 pound mixture that has both raspberry flavored gum drops and cherry flavored jellybeans the gum dro

Question 1165376: The owner of a candy store mixes two types of candies she decides to create a 20 pound mixture that has both raspberry flavored gum drops and cherry flavored jellybeans the gum drops so 40.95 per pound and the jellybeans sell for 1.20 per pound she plans to sell the mix for 1.10 per pound how many pounds of each candy should she use in her mix
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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create a 20 pound mixture that has both raspberry flavored gum drops and cherry flavored jellybeans.PERIOD. the gum drops ARE 40.95 per pound and the jellybeans sell for 1.20 per pound.PERIOD. she plans to sell the mix for 1.10 per pound.PERIOD. how many pounds of
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SOME OF YOUR DATA GIVEN IS WRONG.

Notice the prices of the different candies to be mixed are higher than the price for the expected resulting mixture. This can not work.
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