A fruit company makes a snack containing dried apples and raisins dried apples cost $.38 per ounce and raisins cost $.28 per ounce to make a 10 ounce snack that will sell for $.34 an ounce how much of each dried fruit will be used

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Elaine Glass

5 January, 04:02

A fruit company makes a snack containing dried apples and raisins dried apples cost $.38 per ounce and raisins cost $.28 per ounce to make a 10 ounce snack that will sell for $.34 an ounce how much of each dried fruit will be used

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Braydon Abbott · Answer 1

Let weight of dried Apples = A oz.

then weight of raisins = 10-A oz.

total cost of 10 oz. of mix

0.38A+0.28 (10-A) = 10*0.34 = >

Isolate and solve for A

0.10 A=3.40-2.80=0.60

A=0.60/0.10 = 6 oz

hence

weight of dried apples = 6 oz,

weight of raisins = (10-6) = 4 oz.