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Question 1094993: Thank you so much!! A store owner wants to develop a new snack mix by mixing chocolate and trail mix. How many pounds of chocolate costing $16.70 per pound should be mixed with 12 pounds of trail mix costing $4.20 per pound to create a mixture worth $10.93 per pound.
The owner needs to mix
pounds of chocolate (round to the nearest whole pound - NO COMMAS).
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Arranged for price, %2816.7x%2B4.2%2A12%29%2F%28x%2B12%29=10.93

Arranged for cost, 16.7x%2B4.2%2A12=10.93%28x%2B12%29

Solve.

Answer by ikleyn(52786) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For this kind of problems, see the lessons
    - Word problems on mixtures for dry substances like coffee beans, nuts, cashew and peanuts
    - Word problems on mixtures for dry substances like candies, dried fruits
in this site.

Read them and become an expert in solution the mixture word problems.


Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Mixture problems".


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Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
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