Lou wants to make a coffee mixture to sell. He is going to mix Sumatra coffee which costs $2.50 per pound with Columbian coffee which costs $3.75 per pound. He wants to male 50 pounds of mix and he wants the cost of the mix to be $3.35 per pound. How many pound of each will he need?

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Jayden Mathis

26 November, 13:57

Lou wants to make a coffee mixture to sell. He is going to mix Sumatra coffee which costs $2.50 per pound with Columbian coffee which costs $3.75 per pound. He wants to male 50 pounds of mix and he wants the cost of the mix to be $3.35 per pound. How many pound of each will he need?

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Peter Baxter · Answer 1

To answer this question you need to create 2 equations:

S+C=50

2.50S+3.75C=3.35 * (50)

S=50-C - so now you can plug in S into the second equation

2.50 * (50-C) + 3.75C=167.5

Now you just need to solve this equation, the final answer will be 34 pounds of colombian coffee and 16 pounds of sumatra coffee