Question

A small store sells spearmint tea at $2.99 an ounce and peppermint tea at $4.77 per ounce. The store owner decides to make a batch of 89 ounces of tea that mixes both kinds and sell the mixture for $3.50 an ounce. How many ounces of the two varieties of tea should be mixed to obtain the same revenue as selling them unmixed?

spearmint tea		oz
peppermint tea		oz

A boutique sells blouses and purses. The blouses cost $25 each and the purses cost $46 each. On a certain day the store sells three times as many blouses as purses. If the store sold $726 worth of these two items on that day, how many of each were sold?

blouses
purses

Answer 1