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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?

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Answer:

  2.5 pounds

Step-by-step 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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