document.write( "Question 958371: You decide to make 10 lb of a peanut-and raisin mixture to sell at the class snack sale. You can buy peanuts for $2. 50 per pound and raisins for $1. 75 per pound. If you want to sell the mixture for $2 per pound, how many pounds of peanuts and how many pounds of raisin should you use? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #585728 by josgarithmetic(39618) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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The cost of the mixture and the cost of the separate ingredients to be equal, this cost is $\"10%2Apounds%2A%282%2Adollars%2Fpound%29=20%2Adollars\"$ .\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Let p be pounds of peanuts and then 10-p be pounds of raisins.
\n" ); document.write( " $\"2.5p%2B1.75%2810-p%29=20\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"10p%2B7%2810-p%29=80\"$ , multiplied members by 4,
\n" ); document.write( " $\"10p%2B70-7p=80\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"3p%2B70=80\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"3p=10\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"highlight%28p=10%2F3%29\"$ , and from that, $\"highlight%28%2810-p%29=6%262%2F3%29\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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