SOLUTION: The coffee merchant plans to mix some fancy $6.50 per pound ground coffee called royal soil with 10 pounds of a lowly $2 per pound ground called royal peasant. How many pounds of t

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Question 1190433: The coffee merchant plans to mix some fancy $6.50 per pound ground coffee called royal soil with 10 pounds of a lowly $2 per pound ground called royal peasant. How many pounds of the $6.50 per pound ground coffee should he use
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Recheck your exercise, identify the missing information, and then you could answer the exercise question.

x, how much of the peasant coffee
t, how much total mixture
p, price of resulting mixture
                 PRICE      QUANTITY      COST

SOIL              6.5         t-x        6.5(t-x)

PEASANT           2           x          2x

Rslt.             p           t

6.5%28t-x%29%2B2x=pt-------Your question part asks to solve this for "x". about the best to be done until you have the necessary given values.