SOLUTION: A restaurant chef mixes 20 Ib of snow peas costing $1.99 a pound with 14 Ib of petite onion costing $1.19 a pound to make a vegetable medely for the evening meal. Find the cost per

SOLUTION: A restaurant chef mixes 20 Ib of snow peas costing $1.99 a pound with 14 Ib of petite onion costing $1.19 a pound to make a vegetable medely for the evening meal. Find the cost per

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Question 397110: A restaurant chef mixes 20 Ib of snow peas costing $1.99 a pound with 14 Ib of petite onion costing $1.19 a pound to make a vegetable medely for the evening meal. Find the cost per pund of the mixture?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
20*1.99 + 14*1.19 = $56.46. Then cost per pound is $56.46/34 lbs = 1.66 $/lb
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