Coffee Blends A customer in a coffee shop purchases ablend of two coffees: Kenyan, costing $3.50 a pound, andSri Lankan, costing $5.60 a pound. He buys 3 lb of the blend,which costs him $11.55. How many pounds of each kindwent into the mixture?

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Coffee Blends A customer in a coffee shop purchases a blend of two coffees: Kenyan, costing $3.50 a pound, and Sri Lankan, costing $5.60 a pound. He buys 3 lb of the blend, which costs him $11.55. How many pounds of each kind went into the mixture?