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| PAGE: 136 | SET: Exercises | PROBLEM: 6 |
A candy store wants to creat a mix using two hard candies.
One is priced at 
per pound and other is priced at 
per pound.
Find pounds of the 
candy should mixed with 
pounds of the 
candy.
Total price of the mixed candies is 
per pound.
Let 
is pounds of .
Make a table:
| Hard candies | Number of pounds | Price |
Total price |
| First candy | |
|
 |
| Second Candy | |
|
 |
| Total |  |
|
 |
Observe the table:
Total price of first candy plus Total price of second candy equals Total price of two candies.
.
Solve the equation.
(Original equation)
(Simplify)
(Subtract 
from each side)
(Apply additive inverse property:
)
(Subtract 
from each side)
(Apply additive inverse property:)
(Divide each side by 
)
(Cancel common terms)
pounds of the second candy should be mixed with pounds of the first candy.
pounds of the second candy should be mixed with pounds of the first candy.
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