Question

Jimmy and John are trying to put a mixture together of blue jelly beans and red jelly beans for a souvenir.gift. The blue jelly beans cost $0.28 per ounce and the red jelly beans cost $0.55 per ounce. They would like their.gift bags to cost $2.20 per bag. Use complete sentences to explain why or why not it would be reasonable to say that the mixture could contain 4 ounces of blue jelly beans and 3 ounces of red jelly beans.

Answer 1

It is not reasonable for Jimmy and John to say that the mixture has 4 ounces of blue jelly beans and 3 ounces of red jelly beans because it would cost them $2.77 per bag instead of $2.20 per bag. If they were to put 4 ounces of blue jelly beans and 3 ounces of red jelly beans, they would be going over budget.

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