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oksano4ka [1.4K]
3 years ago
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A merchant has coffee worth $20 a pound that she wishes to mix with 70 pounds of coffee worth $90 a pound to get a mixture that

she will sell for $30 a pound. How many pounds (lb) of the $20 coffee should be used?
Mathematics
2 answers:
tekilochka [14]3 years ago
8 0

The amount of \$\ 20 coffee is \boxed{\bf 420\text{\bf pounds}}.

Further explanation:

Given information:

A merchant has a pound of coffee of worth \$\ 20.  

That merchant wants to mix 70\text{ pounds} of coffee that worth \$\ 90 a pound with the coffee that’s worth is \$\ 20.

After that the merchant wants to sell that mixture for \$\ 30 a pound.

Calculation:

Let us consider the amount of \$\ 20 coffee be x pounds.

The merchant wants to mix that x pound of \$\ 20 coffee with 70\text{ pounds} of \$\ 90 coffee.

Therefore, the total mixture would be of (x+70) pounds.

Now, the total worth of the mixture of \$\ 20 coffee and \$\ 90 coffee is calculated as  follows:

\boxed{(20\cdot x)+(90\cdot 70)=20x+6300}

The merchant wants to sell the total mixture for \$\ 30 a pound.

Therefore, the merchant’s earning would be 30(x+70) dollars.

The worth of the mixture would be equal to the total earnings.

Therefore, the amount x of \$\ 20 coffee can be calculated as  follows:

\boxed{30(x+70)=20x+6300}

 

Use distributive property to expand the Left-Hand Side of above equation as follows:

\begin{aligned}(30\cdot x)+(30\cdot 70)&=20x+6300\\30x+2100&=20x+6300\end{aligned}

 

Simplify the above equation to find the value of x as shown below:

\begin{aligned}30x-20x&=6300-2100\\10x&=4200\end{aligned}  

Divide both sides by 10 in above equation as  follows:

\begin{aligned}\dfrac{10x}{10}&=\dfrac{4200}{10}\\x&=420\end{aligned}

Therefore, the value of x is 420.

Thus, the amount of \$\ 20 coffee is \boxed{\bf 420\text{\bf pounds}}.

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Answer details:

Grade: Middle school

Subject: Mathematics

Chapter: Linear equations

Keywords: Merchant, coffee, $20, $90, $30, pounds, 70 pounds, 420 pounds, x, mixture, sell, mix, equation, linear, amount, distributive property.

Dvinal [7]3 years ago
7 0

Let us start with assuming the amount of coffee worth $20 a pound to be "x" pounds.

Now she wants to mix "x" pounds of $20 coffee with 70 pounds of $90 coffee.

So the mixture would be (x + 70) pounds.

And the value of mixture would be = 20·x + (90)·(70) = (20x + 6300) dollars.

She want to sell this mixture at rate of $30 a pound. Her earning would be = 30·(x + 70) = (30x + 2100) dollars.

We know that the value of mixture would be equal to her earnings.

30x + 2100 = 20x + 6300

30x - 20x = 6300 - 2100

10x = 4200

x = 420

So, 420 pounds of $20 coffee would be used.

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