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Candy selling at $6.00 per pound will be mixed with candy selling at $9.00 per pound. How many pounds of the more expensive candy are needed to produce a 15-pound mixture that sells for $7.00 per pound?

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MEDAL!
Candy selling at $6.00 per pound will be mixed with candy selling at $9.00 per pound. How many pounds of the more expensive candy are needed to produce a 15-pound mixture that sells for $7.00 per pound?

anonymous · Answer

As a matter of fact you can verify that 10 pounds of the first candies are valued $60 and 5 pounds of the seconds are valued $45 which is a total of 105.
105/15=7 which means that the overall 15 pounds do have an average per-pound-value of $7.
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anonymous · Answer

http://brainly.com/question/470345

anonymous · Answer

Here's my answer choices:
A. 5
B. 6
C. 9
D. 10

anonymous · Answer

@ash_heather1

anonymous · Answer

i'm gonna say 10 based on the link

anonymous · Answer

@princesssleelee

dallascowboys88 · Answer

10 i agree