SOLUTION: A grocer mixes x kg of Grade A and Y kg of Grade B nuts to get 60 kg of mixed nuts. Write and equation involving x and y to represent this information. The grocer sells all the

Question 817976: A grocer mixes x kg of Grade A and Y kg of Grade B nuts to get 60 kg of mixed nuts. Write and equation involving x and y to represent this information.
The grocer sells all the mixed nuts at 9.00 per kg. He receives the same amount of money as when he sells the Grade A nuts and the Grade B nuts separately at 10.00 per kg and 6.00 per kg respectively. Write and equation involving x and y to represent this information.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You should try to express exactly what you are given and what you want to find, but your description seems to be one of the typical two-part mixture problems involving price. Maybe this lesson will be of great help to you:
Look in my profile for the lesson, "Mixture: Two-Part, price or cost, both material amounts unknown" in Mixture_Word_Problems
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