document.write( "Question 1198429: A person's website specializes in the sale of rare or unusual vegetable seeds. He sells packets of sweet-pepper seeds for $2.48 each and packets of hot-pepper seeds for $4.88 each. He also offers a 16-packet mixed pepper assortment combining packets of both types of seeds at $3.53 per packet How many packets of each type of seed are in the assortment? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "x packets at $2.48  and  16-x packets at #4.88.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Write the \"money equation\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "    2.48x + 4.88*(16-x) = 3.53*16  dollars\r\n" );
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document.write( "Simplify and find x\r\n" );
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document.write( "    2.48x + 4.88*16 - 4.88x = 3.53*16\r\n" );
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document.write( "         2.48x - 4.88x      = 3.53*16 - 4.88*16\r\n" );
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document.write( "               x            =  = 9.\r\n" );
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document.write( "ANSWER.  In the assortment, there are 9 packets at $2.48 and 16-9 = 7 packets at $4.88.\r\n" );
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