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

since blue jelly beans cost less the could have a greater amount amount of blue then red since its less expensive for each bag of blue jelly beans

Answer 2

It is not reasonable because if they were to buy 4 ounces of blue jelly beans and 3 ounces of jelly beans they would be going over their limit. It would cost them  two dollars and seventy seven cents for those bags instead of two dollars and twenty cents.