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02-01-2017
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Cindy owns a candy store and sells individual candies as well as mixes. Her most popular mixture is the chocolate and mint collection. The ratio of chocolate to mints in this candy mix is 3 to 5. If she is mixing 7pounds of the mix, how many pounds are chocolates?

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Qwerty09876 Qwerty09876

02-01-2017

Call chocolate 'c' and mint 'm'.
-> c=3m/5.
Since c+m= 7 (lbs)
->3m/5 + m = 7
Solve m= 35/8 ~4.4 lbs
->c= 2.6 lbs

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