SOLUTION: Ground beef sells for $4.75 per kg and ground pork sells for $5.50 per kg. How many kilograms of ground pork should be mixed with 8 kg of ground beef to make a mixture that sells f
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Question 168136: Ground beef sells for $4.75 per kg and ground pork sells for $5.50 per kg. How many kilograms of ground pork should be mixed with 8 kg of ground beef to make a mixture that sells for $5.10 per kg? Found 2 solutions by Mathtut, josmiceli:Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 4.75(8)+5.50(y)=5.10(8+y) where y is the number of pounds of pork
38+5.50y=5.10y+40.8
.4y=2.8----> pounds of pork to make the correct mixture
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = kg of groud pork to be used = price of kg of ground pork = the price of 8 kg of ground beef = the price of all the meat used = kg of all the meat used
It is given that the price per kg of the mixture is $5.10
Mulltiply both sides by
7 kg of ground pork are needed
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