A person's website specializes in the sale of rare or unusual vegetable seeds. He sells packets of sweet-pepper seeds for $2.16 each and packets of hot-pepper seeds for $4.40 each. He also offers a 16 -packet mixed pepper assortment combining packets of both types of seeds at $2.44 per packet. How many packets of each type of seed are in the assortment?

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Kash Macias

Mathematics

14 January, 17:25

A person's website specializes in the sale of rare or unusual vegetable seeds. He sells packets of sweet-pepper seeds for $2.16 each and packets of hot-pepper seeds for $4.40 each. He also offers a 16 -packet mixed pepper assortment combining packets of both types of seeds at $2.44 per packet. How many packets of each type of seed are in the assortment?

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Moriah Woods · Answer 1

2.16x+4.40 (16-x) = 2.44 (16)

2.16x+70.40-4.40x = 39.04

-2.24x = - 31.36

x = 14

So, there are 14 packets of the sweet pepper seeds at 2.16 and 16-14 = 4 packets of the hot pepper seeds at 4.40