5. Starstruck coffee shop mixed Colombian coffee worth $5 per kilogram with Ethiopian coffee worth $8 per kilogram. The mixture is to sell for $7 per kilogram. How much of each type of coffee should be used to make 300 kilogram of the mixture? Include your equation. *

Colombian coffee: 100 kg

Ethiopian coffee: 200

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent kg of Colombian coffee and y represent kg of Ethiopian coffee.

We have been given that the mixture of coffee is 300 kg. We can represent this information in an equation as:

We have been given that Starstruck coffee shop mixed Colombian coffee worth $5 per kilogram with Ethiopian coffee worth $8 per kilogram.

Cost of x kg of Colombian coffee would be and Cost of y kg of Ethiopian coffee would be .

The mixture is to sell for $7 per kilogram. We can represent this information in an equation as:

Upon substituting equation (1) in equation (2), we will get:

Therefore, 200 kg of Ethiopian coffee should be used.

Upon substituting in equation (1), we will get:

Therefore, 100 kg of Colombian coffee should be used.

the solution is 12x-6y