A store is going to make a midprice tea by mixing a high quality tea with a low quality tea. They are going to use 15 lbs of a low quality tea that costs $1.25 per pound and 5 lbs of a high quality tea that costs $4.15 per pound. How much should they charge for their tea?

I get TONS of questions like these and I have NO CLUE how to solve them... Please help!

the answers are:

A)
$0.27

B)
$1.34

C)
$1.98

D)
$3.43

Question

A store is going to make a midprice tea by mixing a high quality tea with a low quality tea. They are going to use 15 lbs of a low quality tea that costs $1.25 per pound and 5 lbs of a high quality tea that costs $4.15 per pound. How much should they charge for their tea?

I get TONS of questions like these and I have NO CLUE how to solve them... Please help!

the answers are:

A)
	$0.27

B)
	$1.34

C)
	$1.98

D)
	$3.43

shane_b · Answer

This one is pretty simple.  

They are going to use 15 lbs of tea that costs 1.25/lb.  Therefore, the cost of that ingredient is 15x1.25=$18.75

They are also going to use 5lbs of tea that costs 4.15/lb.
Therefore, the cost of that ingredient is 5x4.15=$20.75.

So the total for the batch will be $18.75+$20.75=$39.50.

anonymous · Answer

wait... I'm confused.... My teacher kinda glazed over this topic...

anonymous · Answer

What exactly do I have to do?

shane_b · Answer

I'm not sure how else to explain it...I summed up the ingredients times their costs.  What part of my first answer is confusing you?

hero · Answer

@Shane_B, you're not done explaining.

anonymous · Answer

I dont understand how we arrive at the numbers?

hero · Answer

The question asks how much should they charge for the tea, not just what the total price is.

shane_b · Answer

Well, they should charge at least some value > $39.50...

shane_b · Answer

@Sunshine447:  If you buy 5 apples and each costs 0.20c, how much did they cost?

anonymous · Answer

$1

hero · Answer

They're going to charge something greater than $39.50?

anonymous · Answer

where do you come up with the 39.50?

shane_b · Answer

@Hero: I see where you're going with this...thanks.  I didn't pay close enough attention to the first part of the question.

shane_b · Answer

@Sunshine447: the total costs of 15lbs of low quality tea and 5 lbs of high quality tea is $39.50.  I arrived at that based on multiplying the lbs of each times the price of each per pound...then added them together.

anonymous · Answer

okay....

shane_b · Answer

The price is per lbs and if they want to charge a mid-price for this tea, it will be:$$\frac{$39.50}{20}=$1.975/lb=$1.98/lb$$

anonymous · Answer

ohhhh okay! Thanks! I've never been good at word problems... too many words.... haha

shane_b · Answer

No problem...and thanks @Hero for pointing out what I missed.