SOLUTION: A shopkeeper sells chocolate coffee beans for $7 a pound. A customer asks the shopkeeper to mix 2 pounds of chocolate beans with 5 pounds of hazelnut coffee beans. If the customer

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: A shopkeeper sells chocolate coffee beans for $7 a pound. A customer asks the shopkeeper to mix 2 pounds of chocolate beans with 5 pounds of hazelnut coffee beans. If the customer paid $6 per pound for the mixture, what is the price per pound of the hazelnut beans? This question is from textbook

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Pounds of Chocolate = C = 2
Pounds of Hazelnut = H = 5
Pounds of Mixture = C+H = 7
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Price per pound of Chocolate = $7
Price per pound of Hazelnut = X
Price per pound of Mixture = $6
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7C%2BX%285%29=6%28C%2BH%29
7%282%29%2B5X=%287%29%286%29
14%2B5X=42
5X=28
X=28%2F5=5.6
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Hazelnut coffee is $5.60 per pound.