SOLUTION: A grocer mixes peanuts that cost $2.49 per pound and walnuts that cost $3.89 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture that costs $3.19 per pound. How much of each kind of nut is p
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Question 349627: A grocer mixes peanuts that cost $2.49 per pound and walnuts that cost $3.89 per pound to make 100 pounds of a mixture that costs $3.19 per pound. How much of each kind of nut is put into the mixture?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the amount of peanuts.
Let be the amount of walnuts.
1.
.
.
.
2.
From eq. 1,
lbs
Then from eq. 1,
lbs
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