SOLUTION: A candy store owner mixes 3 pounds of mints costing $2.50/pound with some chocolate candies costing $3.50/pound to make a mix costing $2.75/pound. How many pounds of the chocolate

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Question 970367: A candy store owner mixes 3 pounds of mints costing $2.50/pound with some chocolate candies costing $3.50/pound to make a mix costing $2.75/pound. How many pounds of the chocolate candies did she use in the mix?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Mixture: one material quantity unknown

Price is very much like a concentration, so your mixture problem exercise uses concentration in the mixed unit of DOLLARS per POUND.