Question

Diane's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Diane $4.05 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.55 per pound. This month's blend used four times as many pounds of type B coffee as type A, for a total cost of $735.00. How many pounds of type A coffee were used

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Type A cost 4.05 dollars per pound

Type B cost 5.55 dollars per pound

now...since type A is four times larger than Type B for that month,.the ratio will be 4:1 respectively

total cost was 735 dollars out of which Type A has

4/5 × 735 = 588 dollars while Type B has 1/5 × 735 = 147 dollars

so therefore ....number of pounds of A = 588/4.05=145.18pounds

and number of Pounds of B = 147/5.55= 26.48pounds