SOLUTION: Please help! At the local grocery store, apples are $1.20 per pound and oranges are $1.80 per pound. If the grocer wants to offer a 1.4-pound bag of mixed fruit for $1.62 per pou

Question 951382: Please help!
At the local grocery store, apples are $1.20 per pound and oranges are $1.80 per pound. If the grocer wants to offer a 1.4-pound bag of mixed fruit for $1.62 per pound, how many pounds of apples must he use?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x, how many pounds apples.
1.4-x, how many oranges.
The two-part mixture problem can be handled in one variable.

Now just account for price.

Simplify and solve for x.

You could also start this using two variables. For that, you could see the lesson http://www.algebra.com/my/mixture-price-two-part-both-parts-unknown.lesson?content_action=show_dev
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