Mrs. Pascal has a candy jar that contains 5 Jolly Ranchers and 13 jawbreakers. Solve each of the following problems and explain

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Mrs. Pascal has a candy jar that contains 5 Jolly Ranchers and 13 jawbreakers. Solve each of the following problems and explain

your thinking.
1) Suppose that you have a new candy jar with the same ratio of Jolly Ranchers to jawbreakers that Mrs. Pascal had but it contains 100 Jolly Ranchers. How many jawbreakers would you have?

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ZanzabumX [31] · Answer 1 · 2022-10-05T21:34:08+03:00

ZanzabumX [31]3 years ago

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Answer:

260 jawbreakers

Step-by-step explanation:

The ratio is 5:13 so if the value of Jolly ranchers increased 20x then the number of jawbreakers would also increase by 20x. There are 260 jawbreakers.