Alan's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Alan $5.75 per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.20
per pound. This month's blend used four times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $451.00. How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

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Alan's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Alan $5.75 per pound, and type B coffee costs $4.20
 per pound. This month's blend used four times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $451.00. How many pounds of type A coffee were used?

irishboy123 · Answer

you online?

anonymous · Answer

yeah

irishboy123 · Answer

so, how are we going to answer this one?

irishboy123 · Answer

first clue:  "This month's blend used four times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A"