SOLUTION: gummy bears sell for $3.50 per pound is to be mixed with jelly beans which sell for $5.50 per pound to obtain 6o pounds to sell at $4.00 per pound How many pounds of Jelly beans do
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Question 788648: gummy bears sell for $3.50 per pound is to be mixed with jelly beans which sell for $5.50 per pound to obtain 6o pounds to sell at $4.00 per pound How many pounds of Jelly beans do you need? thank you!
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
g for Gummy bears, j for Jelly beans, their counts in pounds.
Accounting for cost,
Accounting for pounds of the mixture,
Simplify the cost equation before handling the system.
The system to use may best begin in these two equations:
Solving the system: multiply 7*R2 and subtract from R1. Find value of j; from this find value for g.
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Here is that described solving process carried to completion.
, same as .
Using that back in the R2 equation or the pound-sum equation, you find .
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