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

4*.28=1.12.
3*.55=1.65
1.12+1.65=2.77.

4 ounces of blue and 3 of red would go over their budget.