SOLUTION: This is a homework problem I can't figure out: A party mix is made by adding nuts that sell for $2.50 per kg to a cereal mixture that sells for $1.00 per kg. How much of each shoul

Question 347686: This is a homework problem I can't figure out: A party mix is made by adding nuts that sell for $2.50 per kg to a cereal mixture that sells for $1.00 per kg. How much of each should be added to get 30 kg of a mix that will sell for $1.70 per kg?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the amount of $2.50/kg nuts.
Let be the amount of $1.00/kg cereal.
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.
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Total weight equation:
1.
Concentration/Price equation:

2.
Subtract eq. 1 from eq. 2,

kg
Now that you have use either equation to solve for .
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