SOLUTION: Hi, please help me figure out this mixture word problem: A candy store sells chocolate-covered almonds for $6.50 per pound and chocolate-covered peanuts for $4.00 per pound. The

Question 987892: Hi, please help me figure out this mixture word problem:
A candy store sells chocolate-covered almonds for $6.50 per pound and chocolate-covered peanuts for $4.00 per pound. The manager makes a mix that combines almonds and peanuts and sells them for $6.00 per pound with no loss of revenue from selling the mix versus selling almonds and peanuts alone. How many pounds of peanuts and almonds are required to create a 50 pound mix?
Thanks!
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you take the view that PRICE is a concentration, as DOLLARS per POUND, then the idea is conceptually the same as what is represented through this other specific example presentation:

two-part mixture, just one variable

A lesson for this same idea, but using two unknown variables:
two-part mixture, price or cost - LESSON
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