 A merchant has tea worth 30 cents a pound and some other worth 50 cents a pound. How many pounds of each must he take to mix 60 pounds worth $ .46 a pound ? 109.  College Algebra - Page 94by Ernest Brown Skinner - 1917 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
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 | Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart - Algebra - 1912 - 504 pages
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