SOLUTION: A store owner wants to develop a new snack mix by mixing chocolate and trail mix. How many pounds of chocolate costing $17.70 per pound should be mixed with 14 pounds of trail mix

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Question 1162815: A store owner wants to develop a new snack mix by mixing chocolate and trail mix. How many pounds of chocolate costing $17.70 per pound should be mixed with 14 pounds of trail mix costing $2.70 per pound to create a mixture worth $9.62 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(39615) About Me  (Show Source):
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w, amount of the pounds chocolate to use
w+14, amount of the resulting mixture

To account for the mixture cost
17.7%2Aw%2B2.7%2A14=9.62%28w%2B14%29;
Solve for w.

Answer by ikleyn(52769) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Hello,

your post is formatted in such a way, that I start thinking that you are not interested to learn the solution

(and even are not going to see or read it), but only interested to get the number (the answer) to input it to the system.


Please write me if my understanding is correct.


If not, if you do not want to produce such an impression, then please format your post accordingly.