SOLUTION: Fruit salad which costs $3/lb is made by combining sliced peaches which cost $2/lb with sliced bananas which cost $6/lb. Find the number of lb of sliced peaches and sliced bananas

Question 221302: Fruit salad which costs $3/lb is made by combining sliced peaches which cost $2/lb with sliced bananas which cost $6/lb. Find the number of lb of sliced peaches and sliced bananas required to make 12 lb of fruit salad.
Answer by sofiyac(983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Fruit salad which costs $3/lb is made by combining sliced peaches which cost $2/lb with sliced bananas which cost $6/lb. Find the number of lb of sliced peaches and sliced bananas required to make 12 lb of fruit salad.
so we will call x number of lbs of sliced peaches and y number of lbs of sliced bananas

now we have to solve this system of equations

divide both sides by 4
so since we said earlier that x=12-y then

so we need 9 lbs of peaches and 3 lbs of bananas
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