SOLUTION: Mr. John sells a mixture of m&m's and chocolate covered raisons for $2.39 a pound. If the m&m's cost $2.59 per pound and the chocolate covered raisons cost $2.41 per pound, how ma
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Question 162473: Mr. John sells a mixture of m&m's and chocolate covered raisons for $2.39 a pound. If the m&m's cost $2.59 per pound and the chocolate covered raisons cost $2.41 per pound, how many pounds of m&m's and how many pounds of chocolate covered raisons are in a 140 pound mixture? Found 2 solutions by checkley77, josmiceli:Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There is no solution to this problem as stated.
Because both ingrediants are more expensive ($2.41 & $2.59) than the mix ($2.39). No mix of $2.41 & $2.59 will result in a $ 2.39 mixture.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! I think you copied the problem wrong. There's no way the
final mixture can be sold for less that both of the items
that go into it. The price of the mixture has to be
between the prices of the 2 ingredients.
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