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 $0.27 per ounce and the red jelly beans cost $0.44 per ounce. They would like to make bags that are a mixture of both and cost $3.08 per bag. Use complete sentences to explain why or why not it would be reasonable to say that the mixture could contain 6 ounces of blue jelly beans and 4 ounces of red jelly beans.
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It is not reasonable to say that the mixture should contain 6 ounces of blue jelly beans and 4 ounces of red jelly beans.
Step-by-step explanation:
Because,if the mixture contains 6 ounces of blue jelly beans and 4 ounces of red jelly beans then it costs
= 6×0.27+4×0.44
=1.62+1.76
=3.38
Then the cost will 3.38 which is not equal to the given cost.
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