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Question 178380: Regrind, Inc. regrinds used typewriter platens. The cost to buy back each used platen is $2.70. The fixed cost to run the grinding machine is $228 per day. If the company sells the reground platens for $5.70, how many must be reground daily to break even?
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Question 178479This question is from textbook algebra
: A health food store mixes a breakfast cereal containing granola and dried bananas. Plain granola costs $6.00 per pound. Dried banana slices cost $4.00 per pound. The store makes up 40 pounds of the new cereal and sells it at $5.80 per pound. How much of each ingredient will go into the 40 pound mixture?This question is from textbook algebra
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Question 178479This question is from textbook algebra
: A health food store mixes a breakfast cereal containing granola and dried bananas. Plain granola costs $6.00 per pound. Dried banana slices cost $4.00 per pound. The store makes up 40 pounds of the new cereal and sells it at $5.80 per pound. How much of each ingredient will go into the 40 pound mixture?This question is from textbook algebra
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Question 178568: A merchant blends tea that sells for $3.45 a pound with tea that sells for $2.15 a pound to produce 80 pounds of a mixture that sells for $2.75 a pound.
How many pounds of the $3.45/lbs of tea does the new mixture contain? And how many pounds of the $2.15/lbs of tea does the new mixture contain?
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Question 178568: A merchant blends tea that sells for $3.45 a pound with tea that sells for $2.15 a pound to produce 80 pounds of a mixture that sells for $2.75 a pound.
How many pounds of the $3.45/lbs of tea does the new mixture contain? And how many pounds of the $2.15/lbs of tea does the new mixture contain?
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Question 178837: If bonnie invests $24,000 at 3% interest per year, how much additional money must she recieve at 7% annual interest to ensure that the interest she receives each year is "6 and 1/4%" of the total amount invested?
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Question 179947: Systems of equations can be solved by graphing or by using substitution or elimination. What are the pros and cons of each method? Which method works the best? Why? What circumstances would cause one to use a different method?
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Question 180186: Two metal alloys, one containing 26% copper and the other containing 54%copper are to be mixed together to get 210 oz of an alloy that is 30% copper. How much of the alloy containing 26% copper should be used?
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Question 180263: To make a flour mixture, a miller combined soybeans that cost $8.50 per bushel with wheat that cost 4.50 per bushel. How many bushels of each were used to make a mixture of 1000 bushels costing 5.50 per bushel?
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Question 180727: A famous shop blends yogurt that is 3% fat with its no-fat yogurt to obtain low-fat yogurt that is 1% fat. How many pounds of regular yogurt and how many pounds of no-fat yogurt should be mixed to obtain 60 pounds of low fat yogurt?
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Question 181015: a health clinic uses a solution of bleach to sterilize petri dishes in which cultures are grown. The sterilization tank contains 100 gal of a solution of 2% ordinary household bleach mixed with pure distilled water. New research indicates that the concentration of bleach should be 5% for complete sterilization. How much of the solution should be drained and replaced with bleach to increase the bleach content to the recommended level?
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Question 181265: How many pounds of candy selling at $3.75/lb should be mixed with 35 pounds of candy
selling at $5.00/lb to produce a mixture that should sell at $4.25/lb.
I have set it up all the ways I know and I still get the wrong out come. I have a test at 9:30 in the morning and have been doing word problems for 8 hours now and I'm going crossed eyed HELP!!!
my set up
3.75(x) + 5.00(35-x)=4.25 or do I enter = 4.25(35+x)
x is the lbs st 3.75
35-x is the lbs at 5.00
is that Right?
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