SOLUTION: suppose that a supermarket sells cashews for 4.50 per pound and pecans for 6.50 a pound how many pounds of each are needed to obtain a mixture of 40lbs that can be sold for 5.85 pe

Question 127588: suppose that a supermarket sells cashews for 4.50 per pound and pecans for 6.50 a pound how many pounds of each are needed to obtain a mixture of 40lbs that can be sold for 5.85 per pound
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(price/lb cashews)x(lbs cashews) + (price/lb pecans)x(lbs pecans)
divided by (lbs of cashews and pecans)
= (price per lb of mixture)
Let = pounds of cashews needed
Let = pounds of pecans needed

13 pounds of cashews and 27 pounds of pecans are needed
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