SOLUTION: a coffee manufacturer wants to market 100 pounds of a new blend of colffee that costs $3.90 per pound by mixing two coffees that sell for $2.50 and $5.00 per pound respectively. Wh

Question 374879: a coffee manufacturer wants to market 100 pounds of a new blend of colffee that costs $3.90 per pound by mixing two coffees that sell for $2.50 and $5.00 per pound respectively. What amounts of each coffee should be blended to obtain the desired mixture?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let A be the amount of $2.50/lb coffee, B the amount of $5.00/lb coffee.
1.
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2.
Subtract eq. 1 from eq. 2,

lbs
Then from eq. 1,

lbs
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