document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1200089>Question 1200089</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A grocery store offers a cheese sampler that includes a pepper cheddar cheese that costs $13 per kilogram and Pennsylvania Jack that costs $9 per kilogram. How many kilograms of each were used to make a 5-kilogram mixture that costs $10.20 per kilogram? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "If you don't need a formal algebraic solution, and if getting to the answer quickly is important (as in a timed math competition), then here is a way to solve any 2-part \"mixture\" problem like this.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "$10.20 is 1.20/4.00 = 3/10 of the way from $9.00 to $13.00<BR>\n" );
document.write( "That means 3/10 of the mixture should be the more expensive cheese<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "ANSWER: 3/10 of 5 kg, or 1.5 kg, of the more expensive pepper cheddar cheese; the other 3.5 kg of the less expensive Pennsylvania Jack.<br><BR>\n" );
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