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5. A health-food business would like to create a high-potassium blend of dried fruit in the form
of a box of fruit bars. It decides to use dried apricots, which have 407 mg of potassium per
serving, and dried dates, which have 271 mg of potassium per serving.
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The company can purchase its fruit through www.driedfruitbaskets.com in bulk for a
reasonable price. Dried apricots cost $3.33/serving and dried dates cost $2/serving. The company
would like the box of bars to have at least the recommended daily potassium intake of about
4700 mg, but would like to keep it under twice the recommended daily intake. In order to
minimize cost, how many servings of each dried fruit should go into the box of bars?
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