SOLUTION: Joy is an instructional assistant in one of the college labs. She is on a very tight budget. She loves Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, but it costs $14 a pound. She decides to blend

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Question 630491: Joy is an instructional assistant in one of the college labs. She is on a very tight budget. She loves Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, but it costs $14 a pound. She decides to blend this with regular coffee beans that costs $2.13 a pound. If she spends $14.25 on 2 pounds of coffee, how many pounds of each did she purchase?
Answer by richwmiller(17219) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
14x+2.13y=14.25;
x+y=2
x=0.841618, y=1.15838