SOLUTION: The Nuthouse offers a mixture of soy nuts and almonds. Almonds sell for $7 per pound and soy nuts sell for $5.50 per pound. The Nuthouse will make 20 pounds of the mixed nuts and
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Question 1122121: The Nuthouse offers a mixture of soy nuts and almonds. Almonds sell for $7 per pound and soy nuts sell for $5.50 per pound. The Nuthouse will make 20 pounds of the mixed nuts and sell the mixture for $5.95 per pound. The following equations represent the problem of keeping the cost of the mixture consistent with the ingredients.
x + y = 20.
7x + 5.5y = 119.
x = pounds of almonds and y = pounds of soy nuts.
How many pounds of soy nuts should be used in the mixture?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! x=20-y from first equation
Replace x in the second equation: 7(20-y) + 5.5y =119
Solve for y:
y=14
14 lbs of soy nuts
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