Question

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Felipe's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Felipe $5.65 per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.55 per pound. This month, Felipe made 148 pounds of the blend, for a total cost of $761.40 . How many pounds of type B coffee did he use?

Answer 1

two variables involved....one equation
thus cannot be solved by normal algebra and try to do that by hit and trial

Answer 2

How many pounds of type B?

Answer 3

Felipe made pounds of the blend? How many?

Answer 4

148

Answer 5

no its there

Answer 6

Yeah, NOW

Answer 7

ohh darn

Answer 8

well

Answer 9

let the pounds of A be x
and for B be y
5.65x + 4.55y= 761.40
x+y= 148

Answer 10

($5.65 per pound)*A + ($4.55 per pound)*B = for a total cost of $761.40

A + B = 148 pounds of the blend

Answer 11

ok..

Answer 12

74?

Answer 13

If you solve for A too, you can check your own answer, right?

Answer 14

so is it 74

Answer 15

@kaylee.carmestro are you not interested enough to solve for B and check your own answer?

Answer 16

yesss

Answer 17

Check your results with the words of the problem, Give the answer.
You will gain confidence that way too :-)