SOLUTION: A beverage company is planning to make a fruit juice blend using grape juice and cranberry juice that sells for 3.80 per gallon. If grape juice costs 2.99 per gallon And cranberry

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Question 992078: A beverage company is planning to make a fruit juice blend using grape juice and cranberry juice that sells for 3.80 per gallon. If grape juice costs 2.99 per gallon And cranberry juice costs 4.99 per gallon how much grape juice? Will be needed to make 50 gallons of the fruit juice blend?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let u be volume in gallons to use of the $2.99/gallon juice material.
50-u is how much of the other juice material (the cranberry).

2.99u%2B4.99%2850-u%29=50%2A3.80, equation to account for the COST, although you might want to set up for PRICE instead...

Solve for u.