Question

Orlando is mixing nuts and cereal squares to make a party mix. Nuts sell for $7 a pound and cereal squares sell for $4 a pound. If Orlando wants to make 30 pounds of party mix at a cost of $6.50 a pound, how many pounds of nuts and how many pounds of cereal squares should he use?

Answer 1

0.5lb cereal squares, 0.75 lb nuts

Explanation:

1lb nuts = $7

multiply each side by 1/2 (whatever you do to one side, you do to the other),

0.5lb nuts = $3.5

1lb cereal squares = $4

multiply each side by 3/4 (whatever you do to one side, you do to the other),

0.75lb cereal squares = $3

0.5lb nuts + 0.75lb cereal squares = 3.5 + 3 = $6.5