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A vendor mixes two blends of tea: Blend I costs 6 dollars per pound and Blend II costs 9.50 dollars per pound. He creates a new blend using a positive whole number of pounds of each blend, with the total batch weighing exactly 14 pounds, and wants the new blend's cost per pound to be a whole number of dollars.

Find the smallest whole-number blend cost above 6 achievable with whole-number pound amounts summing to 14.

  1. 6
  2. 6.5
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9.5

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