SOLUTION: A coffee merchant combines coffee costing $6.00 per pound with coffee costing $3.50 per pound. How many pounds of each should be used to make 50 lb of a blend costing $4.30 per pou

SOLUTION: A coffee merchant combines coffee costing $6.00 per pound with coffee costing $3.50 per pound. How many pounds of each should be used to make 50 lb of a blend costing $4.30 per pou

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Question 781333: A coffee merchant combines coffee costing $6.00 per pound with coffee costing $3.50 per pound. How many pounds of each should be used to make 50 lb of a blend costing $4.30 per pound?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
m pounds at $6/pound
n pounds at $3.5/pound

and
These are simultaneous equations to use for solving m and n.
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