SOLUTION: Keiko's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Keiko $4.35 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.65 per pound. This month's blend u

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Question 1028277: Keiko's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Keiko $4.35 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.65 per pound. This month's blend used three times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $830.70.
How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

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