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A company sells a dried fruit mixture for $5 per pound. To make the mixture, banana chips that cost

$2.50 per pound are blended with dried strawberries that cost $8 per pound. How many pounds of dried

strawberries should be added to 3 pounds of banana chips to make the dried fruit mixture?

User Mikerojas
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Answer:

2.5 pounds

Explanation:

Let s represent the number of pounds of dried strawberries that should be added to the bananas. The total cost of the mixture will be ...

(2.50)(3) +(8.00)(s) = (5.00)(3 +s)

7.50 +8s = 15 +5s . . . . . . . eliminate parentheses

3s = 7.50 . . . . . . . . . subtract 7.50+5s

s = 2.50 . . . . . . divide by 3

2.5 pounds of dried strawberries should be added to make the mixture.

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