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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Jim's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Jim $ 5.70 per pound, and type B coffee costs $ 4.05 per pound. This month's blend used four times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $ 613.20 . How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@YZY please help :(

OpenStudy (anonymous):

5.7A + 4.05B = 613.2

OpenStudy (anonymous):

B/A=4

OpenStudy (surana):

Yes, that's a good idea.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Use those two equations to solve

OpenStudy (surana):

So you add A and B, then divide by 4, right?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

uhh, I don't know what you mean

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Isolate either A or B from the second equation

OpenStudy (surana):

Never mind. I got confused.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

B=4A

OpenStudy (anonymous):

now plug in 4A for B in the first equation

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

thanks @YZY im sorry to bother you can you help me with one more

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeah

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