A candy store owner has chocolate candies worth $3.50 per pound and sour candies worth $0.70 per pound. How much of each kind of candies should she combine to get 60 lb of mixed candies worth $2.80 per pound? (Include units with your numerical answers.) The owner needs to mix of $3.50/lb chocolate candies with of $0.70/lb sour candies to make a 60lb mixture of $2.80/lb candies.

A candy store owner has chocolate candies worth $3.50 per pound and sour candies worth $0.70 per pound. How much of each kind of candies should she combine to get 60 lb of mixed candies worth $2.80 per pound? (Include units with your numerical answers.) The owner needs to mix of $3.50/lb chocolate candies with of $0.70/lb sour candies to make a 60lb mixture of $2.80/lb candies.

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

1st Edition

ISBN:9780547587776

Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Publisher:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Chapter1: Variables, Expressions, And Integers

Section1.5: Adding Integers

Problem 45E

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