SOLUTION: A merchant blends tea that sells for $5.80 a pound with tea that sells for $2.00 a pound to produce 80 lb of a mixture that sells for $3.90 a pound. How many pounds of each type of

SOLUTION: A merchant blends tea that sells for $5.80 a pound with tea that sells for $2.00 a pound to produce 80 lb of a mixture that sells for $3.90 a pound. How many pounds of each type of

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Question 985572: A merchant blends tea that sells for $5.80 a pound with tea that sells for $2.00 a pound to produce 80 lb of a mixture that sells for $3.90 a pound. How many pounds of each type of tea does the merchant use in the blend?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Same idea but different kind of concentration and different kind of material

A lesson for this more generally:
http://www.algebra.com/my/mixture-price-two-part-both-parts-unknown.lesson?content_action=show_dev
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