SOLUTION: Ryan's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Ryan $5.95per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.65 per pound. This month's blend used
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Question 747390: Ryan's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Ryan $5.95per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.65 per pound. This month's blend used twice as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of$320.25 . How many pounds of type A coffee were used?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let = pounds of type A coffee used
Let = pounds of type B coffee used
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given:
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(2)
Substitute (1) into (2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
and
(1)
(1)
21 pounds of type A coffee were used
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check:
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
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