Question

Tom's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Tom $5.35 per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.25 per pound. This month's blend used three times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $597.30 . How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

Answer 1

What formulas would you use to solve this?

Answer 2

i have no idea

Answer 3

What + what = 597.30???

Answer 4

No..to do your equation we need to determine What + What = 597.30.

Coffee A in pounds x ($5.35) + Coffee B in pounds x ($4.25) = 597.30.

Do you understand?