Question

Alisha designs a new tea blend by mixing Sweet Rose Tulsi tea with Orange blossom green tea. Sweet rose tea sells for $4.98 an ounce and Orange Blossom sells for $1.98 an ounce. If she wants to blend 16 ounces of the tea blend to sell for $4.23 per ounce, how many ounces of each tea should she use?

Answer 1

Answer: She should use 12 ounces of Sweet Rose Tulsi tea and 4 ounces of Orange blossom green tea.

Explanation:

Let x represent the number of ounces of Sweet Rose Tulsi tea that she should use.

Let y represent the number of ounces of Orange blossom green tea that she should use.

She wants to blend 16 ounces of the tea blend. It means that

x + y = 16

x = 16 - y

Sweet rose tea sells for $4.98 an ounce and Orange Blossom sells for $1.98 an ounce. If the the tea blend is to sell for $4.23 per ounce, then the 16 ounces would be sold for 16 × 4.23 = 67.68

it means that

4.98x + 1.98y = 67.68- - - - - - - - - - -1

Substituting x = 16 - y into equation 1, it becomes

4.98(16 - y) + 1.98y = 67.68

79.68 - 4.98y + 1.98y = 67.68

- 4.98y + 1.98y = 67.68 - 79.68

- 3y = - 12

y = - 12/-3

y = 4

x = 16 - y = 16 - 4

x = 12