SOLUTION: The future teacher of America Club at Paint Branch High School is making a healthy trail mix to sell to students during lunch. The mix will have three times the number of pounds of

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Question 1191088: The future teacher of America Club at Paint Branch High School is making a healthy trail mix to sell to students during lunch. The mix will have three times the number of pounds of raisins as sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds cost $4.00 per pound, raisins cost $1.50 per pound. If the group has $34.00 to spend on the raisins and sunflower seeds, how many pounds of each should they buy. Round to the nearest tenth.
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The number of pounds of raisins is____
The number of pounds of sunflower seeds is_____
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sunflower seeds have x pounds or $4x.
raisins have 3x pounds or $4.50x
Those two add to $34
8.50x=$34
x=4 or 4.0 pounds of sunflower seeds ($16)
3x has 12.0 pounds of raisins ($18)