SOLUTION: Please help! Thank-you! Have a mixture of chocolate covered pretzels & macadamia nuts. The pretzels sell for $3/pd. and the nuts $8/pd. How many pds. of the nuts should be mixed

Question 26094: Please help! Thank-you!
Have a mixture of chocolate covered pretzels & macadamia nuts. The pretzels sell for $3/pd. and the nuts $8/pd. How many pds. of the nuts should be mixed with 50pds. of the pretzels to make a mixture that would sell for $6/pd?
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let amount of nuts be "x".
Value of nuts is 8x dollars
Value of pretzels is 3(50) dollars
EQUATION:
Value of nuts + Value of pretzels = value of mixture
8x+150=6(x+50)
8x+150=6x+300
2x = 150
x= 75 lbs. of nuts should be added to the pretzels
Cheers,
Stan H.
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