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A merchant blends tea that sells for $4.25 a pound with
tea that sells for $2.35 a pound to produce 60 lb of a mixture
that sells for $2.75 a pound.

Then the mixture contains:
X? lbs of the $4.25/lb mixture of tea and

X? lbs of the $2.35/lb mixture of tea tea

2007-09-15 08:51:17 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

2 answers

x = amount of $4.25 tea
Then 60-x = amount of $2.35 tea
4.25x + 2.35(60-x) = 60(2.75)
4.25x + 141 -2.35x = 165
1.9x = 24
x = 12.63 pounds of $.25 tea
60-x = 47.37 pounds of $2.35 tea

2007-09-15 09:06:22 · answer #1 · answered by ironduke8159 7 · 0 0

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2017-01-02 06:08:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

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