SOLUTION: Lemon drops worth $1.90 per pound are to be mixed with jelly beans that cost $1.20 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture worth $1.48 per pound. How many pounds of each candy sh
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Question 161923: Lemon drops worth $1.90 per pound are to be mixed with jelly beans that cost $1.20 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture worth $1.48 per pound. How many pounds of each candy should be used? Answer by checkley77(12569) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 1.9X+1.2(100-X)=100*1.48
1.9X+120-1.2X=148
.7X=148-120
.7X=28
X=28/.7
X=40 POUNDS OF LEMON DROPS ARE USED.
100=40=60 POUNDS OF JELLY BEANS ARE USED.
PROOF:
1.9*40+1.2*60=148
76+72=148
148=148
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