SOLUTION: To make a flour mix, a miller combined soybeans that cost $5.30 per bushel with wheat that cost $3.50 per bushel. How many bushels of each were used to make a mixture of 810 bushel

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Question 904476: To make a flour mix, a miller combined soybeans that cost $5.30 per bushel with wheat that cost $3.50 per bushel. How many bushels of each were used to make a mixture of 810 bushels that cost $4.00 per bushel?
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5.30x + 3.50(810B-x) = 4.00(810B)
x = .50(810B)/1.8
Solve for x and then determine 810-x