SOLUTION: At a veterinary clinic, a special high protein dog food that costs 6.75 per pound is mixed with a vitamin supplement that costs per pound. How many pounds of each should be used t
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Question 483802: At a veterinary clinic, a special high protein dog food that costs 6.75 per pound is mixed with a vitamin supplement that costs per pound. How many pounds of each should be used to make a lb mixture that costs per pound? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let represent the amount of ingredient 1 in some unit of weight or volume. Let represent the cost per unit of ingredient 1. Likewise, amount and cost of ingredient 2 and the total mixture would be: and
Set up a system of equations, one equation for the total weight, and one equation for the total cost.
Which are the variables and which are the coefficients depends on what data you are given. Since you didn't bother to share any data except for the cost of ingredient 1, this is as far as I can take this one.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
