A store sells cashews for $5.00 per pound and peanuts for $1.50 per pound. The manager decides

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A store sells cashews for $5.00 per pound and peanuts for $1.50 per pound. The manager decides to mix 30 pounds of peanuts with some cashews and sell the mixture for $3.00 per pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the peanuts so that the mixture will produce the same revenue as would selling the nuts separately?

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Precalculus

ISBN: 978-0321716835

9th edition

Authors: Michael Sullivan

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