SOLUTION: a coffee company is making a new coffee blend. The company bought 50 lbs of Kona Beans at $12/lb and plans to mix these beans with Colombian beans that cost $6/lb. If the company w
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Question 852014: a coffee company is making a new coffee blend. The company bought 50 lbs of Kona Beans at $12/lb and plans to mix these beans with Colombian beans that cost $6/lb. If the company wants its overall average cost per lb of the blend to be $10/lb, how many lbs of Colombian beans should it buy?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
; the cost of the blend is the sum of the cost of each bean used.
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