document.write( "Question 740885: The coffee merchant wants to blend a mildly strong coffee called Nervous Nellie with an extremely strong coffee called Nervous Breakdown to create a medium strength coffee he plans to call Nervous Wreck. If the Nellie flavor costs $1.20 per pound and the Breakdown flavor costs $1.40 per pound, how many pounds of the Nellie is needed to create a 30 pound blend which costs $1.35 per pound?\r
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document.write( "                price          pounds          costs\r\n" );
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document.write( "nellie           1.2             30-c          1.2(30-c)\r\n" );
document.write( "breakdown        1.4               c           1.4c\r\n" );
document.write( "wreck(blend)     1.35            30            1.2(30-c)+1.4\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "To account for cost $\"1.35%2A30=1.2%2830-c%29%2B1.4c\"$ \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"1.35%2A30=36-1.2c%2B1.4c\"$ \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"1.35%2A30=36%2B0.2c\"$ \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"c=%281.35%2A30-36%29%2F0.2\"$ \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " $\"c=22.5\"$ , the pounds of Breakdown
\n" ); document.write( "which means $\"7.5\"$ , the pounds of Nellie \n" ); document.write( "

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