SOLUTION: the owners of a candy store want to sell, for 6 $ per pound, a mixture of chocolate covered raisins , which usually sells for 3 $ per pound, and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts, w
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Question 534421: the owners of a candy store want to sell, for 6 $ per pound, a mixture of chocolate covered raisins , which usually sells for 3 $ per pound, and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts, which usually sells for 8 $ per pound. they have a 70 pound barrel of the raisins. how many pounds of the nuts should they mix with the barrel of raisins so that they target value of 6$ per pound for the mixture Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = pounds of nuts needed = cost of nuts in dollars
given: = cost of raisins in dollars
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105 pounds of nuts are needed
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