SOLUTION: The manager of a specialty food store combined almonds that cost $4.50 per pound with walnuts that cost $2.50 per pound. How many pounds of each were used to make a 100 pound mixtu

SOLUTION: The manager of a specialty food store combined almonds that cost $4.50 per pound with walnuts that cost $2.50 per pound. How many pounds of each were used to make a 100 pound mixtu

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Question 293888: The manager of a specialty food store combined almonds that cost $4.50 per pound with walnuts that cost $2.50 per pound. How many pounds of each were used to make a 100 pound mixture that costs $3.24 per pound?
Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a+w=100
4.5a+2.5w=100*3.24
a=37 w=63

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