Question

Solve using substition or elimination.

A health shop owner made trail mix containing dried fruit, nuts, and carob chips. The dried fruit sells for $5.50 per pound, the nuts sell for $7.50 per pound, and the carob chips sell for $8.50 per pound. The shop owner mixed 50 pounds of the trail mix and sells it for 6.70 per pound. If the amount of nuts is five pounds more than the amount of carob ships, how much of each item was used for the trail mix?

Answer 1

nuts in the mixture= g fouwv Carob Chip ーぞPounds 七tal