Suppose you work for a large coffee distributor that has a secret coffee blend it sells to local stores. You mix the Gazebo blend with the Breakfast blend, but always in the same proportion. Yesterday, you mixed 50 pounds of the Gazebo blend with 15 pounds of the Breakfast blend. Today, there is 40 pounds of the Gazebo coffee left in stock. How many pounds of the Breakfast coffee should you mix with it to get your secret blend? Answer: pounds

The snack hut sells peanuts for $1.80 a pound and almonds for $4.20 a pound. The store decides to make a special mixture of peanuts and almonds in a 4 pound bag and sell it for $3.00 a pound. How many pounds of peanuts and how many pounds of almonds should go into the 4 pound mixture to make it a fair price?

Peanuts sell for $8.00 per pound and cashews sell for $10.50 per pound.  A merchant wants to sell a mixture of peanuts and cashews.  How many pounds of peanuts and cashews must be used to create 23 pounds of a mixture that will sell for $8.54 per pound?  Round answers off to the nearest whole number.

The dinner bill is $72.  I have $21.57 and my friend has $36.42.  How much more is needed?

A candy store owner has chocolate candies worth $3.50 per pound and sour candies worth $0.90 per pound. How much of each kind of candies should she combine to get 80 lb of mixed candies worth $2.20 per pound?

You need Italian Sausage for Spaghetti tonight. You notice two different brands in the grocery store: a 12 ounce package for $2.98 that you have 2 identical coupons for 50 cents off or a 24 ounce package for $3.98. Which one is a better deal? Note that this grocery store doubles coupons to 50 cents.

A choclate,cherry, vanilla cake (equal thirds each flavor) cake is purchased for $18.80. Jane values Choclate 4 times as much as Vanilla and values Cherry 3 times as much as Vanilla. What is the value of the third of the cherry cake to Jane (to the nearest penny)?

Purchasing Earl is ordering supplies. Yellow paper costs $4.00 per ream while white paper costs $6.50 per ream. He would like to order 100 reams total, and has a budget of $490. How many reams of each color should he order? yellow paper white paper reams reams

A local culinary market sells ground sumac for $1.35 per ounce and ground thyme for $2.10 per ounce. You want to make a 15-oz seasoning blend using the two spices that sells for $1.65 per ounce. How much of each spice should you use? You should use ounces of sumac and ounces of thyme. (Simplify your answers.)

This question has two parts. Tory buys a bag of cat food that has a mass of 5 kilograms. Tory's cat has a mass of 4 kilograms, 575 grams. Part A. What is the difference in mass, in grams, between the bag of food and Tory's cat?