SOLUTION: The manager of a coffee shop sells chocolate covered peanuts for $6 dollars per pound and chocolate covered cashews for $15 dollars per pound. The manager wishes to mix 70 pounds o
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Question 126279: The manager of a coffee shop sells chocolate covered peanuts for $6 dollars per pound and chocolate covered cashews for $15 dollars per pound. The manager wishes to mix 70 pounds of the cashews to get a cashew-peanut mixture that will sell for $13 dollars per pound. How many pounds of peanuts should be used? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = pounds of peanuts needed
Let = pounds of cashews needed given
In words:
(price of peanuts used)+(price of casews used)/(pounds of mixture) = price/pound answer
20 pounds of peanuts should be used
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