Question

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?

Answer 1

260 jawbreakers

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.