Ashley's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Ashley $4.30 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.95 per pound. This month, Ashley made 177 pounds of the blend, for a total cost of $919.50 . How many pounds of type A coffee did she use?

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Ashley's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Ashley  $4.30 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.95 per pound. This month, Ashley made 177 pounds of the blend, for a total cost of $919.50  . How many pounds of type A coffee did she use?

ddcamp · Answer

Set up a system of equations using the variables a and b, where a is the pounds of type A coffee and b is the pounds of type B coffee.

What would the total pounds be (in terms of a and b)? What would the total cost be?

anonymous · Answer

i got it its 81