A catering company mixes cooked shredded beef with roasted Anaheim chilies to use as the filling in their house specialty burrito. How many pounds of both shredded beef that sells for $6.61 per pound and chilies that sell for $1.59 per pound must be mixed to produce 85 pounds of the mixture, witch sells for $511.65? Let b represent the number of pounds of beef and c represent the number of pounds of chilies.
A) b = 10 pounds, c = 75 pounds
B) b = 75 pounds, c = 10 pounds
C) b = 50 pounds, c = 35 pounds
D) b = 35 pounds, c = 50 pounds

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The total cost of the mixture is $511.65, and the total weight is 85 pounds. Using the equation 6.61b + 1.59c = 511.65 and b + c = 85, solving these equations simultaneously gives b = 75 pounds and c = 10 pounds.

A Catering Company Mixes Cooked Shredded Beef with Roasted Anaheim