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Eric's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Eric $4.25 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.50 per pound. This month, Eric made 140 pounds of the blend, for a total cost of $675.00. How many pounds of type B coffee did he use?

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Eric's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Eric $4.25 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.50 per pound. This month, Eric made 140 pounds of the blend, for a total cost of $675.00. How many pounds of type B coffee did he use?

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we need a variable for the number of pounds of the type  B coffee, since that is what you are looking for 
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